
New Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II)
Purpose: | To use the New Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) to assess the risk for death of an ICU patient. |
Specialty: | Critical Care Emergency Medicine |
Objective: | severity, prognosis, stage, differential diagnosis and mimics, red flags, disease progression |
ICD-10: | R57 |
Description: | The New Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) is a revision of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score. It is used to assess patients in the ICU and can predict mortality risk based on the most marked abnormalities of 15 variables. |
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