SOFA Score and Critically Ill Elderly Patients
Gupta, V.; Karnik, N.D.; Agrawal, D.
Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 65(7): 47-50
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-5772 PMID: 28792169 Document Number: 693756
To study correlation between SOFA Score and Outcome in Elderly Patients admitted In Intensive Care Unit. A single centre prospective observational study in Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) of large teaching Institute. A total of 84 elderly patients were studied and the outcome was correlated with SOFA Score at admission and 48 hours after admission. Elderly patients constituted 10.94% (84 out of 764) of total MICU admissions. Critically ill elderly patients had a very high mortality of 73.8% (62 out of 84), as compared to their younger counterparts with mortality rates of 43.53% (296 out of 680) with a highly significant P value of <0.0001. The mean SOFA scores are statistically significantly higher at both time points in the expired group (7.84±3.74 and 8.64±3.72 respectively on admission and at 48 hours). There is positive correlation between mortality and SOFA score at admission and at 48 hours. SOFA score thus can be effectively used as predictive scoring system for critically ill elderly patients.