The American journal of emergency medicine
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Letter Multicenter Study
Complications of serious acute conditions in children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Multicenter Study
Time for a prehospital-modified sequential organ failure assessment score: An ambulance-Based cohort study.
To adapt the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score to fit the prehospital care needs; to do that, the SOFA was modified by replacing platelets and bilirubin, by lactate, and tested this modified SOFA (mSOFA) score in its prognostic capacity to assess the mortality-risk at 2 days since the first Emergency Medical Service (EMS) contact. ⋯ Scoring systems are now a reality in prehospital care, and the mSOFA score assesses multiorgan dysfunction in a simple and agile manner either bedside or en route. Patients with acute disease and an mSOFA score greater than 6 points transferred with high priority by EMS represent a high early mortality group.