Description

Guiguet et al evaluated survival for neutropenic cancer patient admitted to the intensive care unit. They correlated survival with the number of organ system failures on the first and third day of the ICU admission. The authors are from Paris and Villejuif in France.


 

Organ systems evaluated for failure, using the criteria of Knaus et al:

(1) cardiovascular

(2) respiratory

(3) renal

(4) hematologic

(5) neurologic

(6) hepatic

 

OSF Day 1

OSF Day 3

Percent Survival

Prognosis

1

NA

78%

fair

2

0 or 1

75%

fair

2

2

43%

guarded

2

3 to 6

0%

poor

3 to 6

NA

12%

poor

from Figure 4, page 492

 


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