The American journal of emergency medicine
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Am J Emerg Med
2017
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Comparison of cricoid pressure effect between McGRATH® MAC and Pentax-AWS Airwayscope®: A prospective randomized trials.
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We aimed to derive and validate a parsimonious and pragmatic clinical prediction rule using the concepts of Predisposition, Infection, Response, and Organ Dysfunction to predict in-hospital mortality; and to compare it with other prediction rules, as well as with conventional biomarkers for evaluating the mortality risk of patients with suspected sepsis in the emergency department (ED). ⋯ In patients with suspected sepsis, this parsimonious and pragmatic model could be utilized to stratify the mortality risk of patients in the early stage of sepsis.