APACHE Scoring table: Difference between revisions
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Some values arrive with a higher decimal precision than the definitions. Since the definitions have holes, that would lead to values in the holes being undefined for points. | Some values arrive with a higher decimal precision than the definitions. Since the definitions have holes, that would lead to values in the holes being undefined for points. | ||
This is solved by rounding the value to one decimal point and applying the score to that. | This is solved by rounding the value to one decimal point and applying the score to that. | ||
=== *4 AaDO2 can be 0 or negative=== | |||
Unlike other physiological variables AaDO2 can be 0 or negative, so onlike the others the score for a 0 AaDO2 is 0 if AaDO2 < 200, which includes AaDO2<=0. | |||
Note for programming only: The score is still null if the AaDO2 is null. | |||
== [[Glasgow Coma Scale]] (GCS) == | == [[Glasgow Coma Scale]] (GCS) == | ||