Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Gastrointestinal Failure score in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study. | Available online http content 1 2 4 R90 Research Gastrointestinal Failure score in critically ill patients a prospective observational study Annika Reintam1 2 Pille Parm3 Reet Kitus1-3 Joel Starkopf1 3 and Hartmut Kern1 4 1Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care University of Tartu Puusepa Tartu 51014 Estonia 2Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care East Tallinn Central Hospital Ravi Tallinn 10138 Estonia 3Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Tartu University Hospital Puusepa Tartu 51014 Estonia 4Klinik fur Anasthesiologie und Intensivmedizin DRK Kliniken Berlin Kopenick Salvador-Allende-StraBe Berlin 12559 Germany Corresponding author Annika Reintam Received 18 Mar 2008 Revisions requested 22 Apr 2008 Revisions received 8 Jul 2008 Accepted 14 Jul 2008 Published 14 Jul 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R90 doi cc6958 This article is online at http content 12 4 R90 2008 Reintam et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction There are no universally accepted diagnostic criteria for gastrointestinal failure in critically ill patients. In the present study we tested whether the occurrence of food intolerance FI and intra-abdominal hypertension IAH combined in a 5-grade scoring system for assessment of gastrointestinal function the Gastrointestinal Failure GIF score predicts mortality. The prognostic value of the GIF score alone and in combination with the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment SOFA score is evaluated and the incidence and outcome of gastrointestinal failure is described relative to the GIF score. Methods A total of 264 subsequently hospitalized patients who were mechanically ventilated on admission and .
