Search Tag: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment

ICU Management

2023 23 Jan

The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score was developed in 1994, more than 25 years ago. The primary purpose of the score was to provide clinicians with a method that could help them assess and monitor organ dysfunction in critically ill patients. SOFA score became one of the most widely used scoring systems in intensive care. However, many...Read more

ICU Management

2019 30 Aug

The controversy surrounding the efficacy of the blood infection biomarker, procalcitonin (PCT), for guidance in acute infections and sepsis treatment remains. PCT is a calcitonin precursor produced by epithelial cells when infected with bacteria and has been identified as a marker due to the protein levels’ variation upon infection initiation and cessation....Read more

ICU Management

2019 06 Mar

Organ dysfunction is common after cardiac arrest and associated with worse short-term outcome. New research shows that extracerebral organ failure, measured as the 24 hour-EC-SOFA score, is also an important contributor to both long-term outcome and increased healthcare-associated costs in cardiac arrest patients.   For this retrospective...Read more