Open AccessEarly Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality of Patients with Hemoptysis: An Approach to Defining Severe Hemoptysis
Author(s) -
Muriel Fartoukh,
Babak Khoshnood,
Antoine Parrot,
Antoine Khalil,
MarieFrance Carette,
Annabelle Stoclin,
Charles Mayaud,
J. Cadranel,
PierreYves Ancel
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
respiration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1423-0356
pISSN - 0025-7931
DOI - 10.1159/000331501
Subject(s) - medicine , chest radiograph , mechanical ventilation , logistic regression , receiver operating characteristic , retrospective cohort study , pneumonia , surgery , lung
The severity of hemoptysis is usually assessed on the amount of blood expectorated, although no threshold has been agreed upon. Respiratory or hemodynamic failures are additional severity criteria but occur in few cases.
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