Severity of illness and outcome of treatment in alcoholic patients in the intensive care unit. Export

@article{citeulike:2875573, abstract = {To study whether critically ill alcoholics were more sick and had a worse outcome than other patients treated in the intensive care unit, data were collected during the initial 24 h on 216 consecutive patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Twentysix patients (12\%) met the criteria for alcohol abuse. The patients' chronic health 6 months prior to admission and the extent of physiological derangement (Acute Physiology Score and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE] were recorded just as the type and amount of treatment (Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS]. Alcoholics were found to be significantly more sick and had a higher mortality (50\% compared to 26\%) than other critically ill patients. However, when analyzing the TISS points, no difference was found between the two groups. All survivors were, every third month up to 1 year after admission, asked to fill in a questionnaire indicating their level of activity. No differences were found between the two groups 1 year after admission, but the alcoholics had lost more time due to death. It is concluded that studies with larger number of patients will reveal whether alcoholics constitute a special category of patients with a different prognosis than other ICU patients.}, address = {Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.}, author = {Jensen, N. H. and Dragsted, L. and Christensen, J. K. and J{\o}rgensen, J. C. and Qvist, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {2875573}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3230195}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=3230195}, issn = {0342-4642}, journal = {Intensive care medicine}, keywords = {24, 4, 7, alcohol}, number = {1}, pages = {19--22}, posted-at = {2008-06-09 13:37:00}, priority = {2}, title = {Severity of illness and outcome of treatment in alcoholic patients in the intensive care unit.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3230195}, volume = {15}, year = {1988} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2875573 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2875573 N2 - To study whether critically ill alcoholics were more sick and had a worse outcome than other patients treated in the intensive care unit, data were collected during the initial 24 h on 216 consecutive patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Twentysix patients (12%) met the criteria for alcohol abuse. The patients' chronic health 6 months prior to admission and the extent of physiological derangement (Acute Physiology Score and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE] were recorded just as the type and amount of treatment (Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS]. Alcoholics were found to be significantly more sick and had a higher mortality (50% compared to 26%) than other critically ill patients. However, when analyzing the TISS points, no difference was found between the two groups. All survivors were, every third month up to 1 year after admission, asked to fill in a questionnaire indicating their level of activity. No differences were found between the two groups 1 year after admission, but the alcoholics had lost more time due to death. It is concluded that studies with larger number of patients will reveal whether alcoholics constitute a special category of patients with a different prognosis than other ICU patients. IS - 1 JF - Intensive care medicine SN - 0342-4642 AD - Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. EP - 22 TI - Severity of illness and outcome of treatment in alcoholic patients in the intensive care unit. VL - 15 SP - 19 KW - 24 KW - 4 KW - 7 KW - alcohol AU - Jensen, NH AU - Dragsted, L AU - Christensen, JK AU - Jørgensen, JC AU - Qvist, J PY - 1988/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3230195 ER -