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APACHE II

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APACHE II
Acute Physiology & Chronic Health Evaluation II. A ‘second generation’ system of objective measures for predicting the outcome of critically ill patients in an ICU based on age, physiologic status and underlying health; it acts as a tool for scoring the severity of illness in patients admitted in an intensive care unit


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Health record reviews provided the gender, age, diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, pre-existing comorbidities, preoperative HgbA1C, BMI, type of surgery, cross-clamp and CPB times, pre- and postoperative APACHE II scores, and postoperative complications.
Patients were also assessed with the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) and the APACHE II score.
 
 
 
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