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标题：Abnormal Admission Chest X-Ray and MEWS as ICU Outcome Predictors in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Observational Study
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作者：Hannington Ssemmanda ; Tonny Stone Luggya ; Clare Lubulwa 等
期刊名称：Critical Care Research and Practice
印刷版ISSN：2090-1305
电子版ISSN：2090-1313
出版年度：2016
卷号：2016
DOI：10.1155/2016/7134854
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：Background. Critical care in Uganda is a neglected speciality and deemed costly with limited funding/prioritization. We studied admission X-ray and MEWS as mortality predictors of ICU patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Materials and Methods. We did a cross-sectional study in Mulago Hospital ICU and 87 patients for mechanical ventilation were recruited with mortality as the outcome of interest. Chest X-ray results were the main independent variable and MEWS was also gotten for all patients. Results. We recruited 87 patients; most were males (60.92%), aged between 16 and 45 years (59.77%), and most admissions for mechanical ventilation were from the Trauma Unit (30.77%). Forty-one (47.13%) of the 87 patients died and of these 34 (53.13%) had an abnormal CXR with an insignificant IRR = 1.75 (0.90–3.38) (). Patients with MEWS ≥ 5 ( values = 0.018) and/or having an abnormal superior mediastinum ( values = 0.013) showed a positive association with mortality while having a MEWS 5 had an incidence risk ratio = 3.29 (1.00–12.02) (). MEWS was a good predictor of mortality (predictive value = 0.6739). Conclusion. Trauma (31%) caused most ICU admissions, having an abnormal admission chest X-rays positively associated with mortality and a high MEWS was also a good predictor of mortality.