Open AccessThe Surgical Apgar Score Is Strongly Associated with Intensive Care Unit Admission After High-Risk Intraabdominal Surgery
Author(s) -
Julia Sobol,
Hayley B. Gershengorn,
Hannah Wunsch,
Guohua Li
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e31829180b7
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , confidence interval , odds ratio , logistic regression , retrospective cohort study , triage , apgar score , emergency medicine , cohort , surgery , gestational age , pregnancy , biology , genetics
Understanding intensive care unit (ICU) triage decisions for high-risk surgical patients may ultimately facilitate resource allocation and improve outcomes. The surgical Apgar score (SAS) is a simple score that uses intraoperative information on hemodynamics and blood loss to predict postoperative morbidity and mortality, with lower scores associated with worse outcomes. We hypothesized that the SAS would be associated with the decision to admit a patient to the ICU postoperatively.