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# Pneumonia Severity Index Version 1.1

About:

Over 4 million cases of Community Acquired Pneumonia are seen in the US every year. Statistics indicate that more than 600000 of these are hospitalized and this accounts for approximately $4 Billion in cost related to hospitalization. While hospitalization varies regionally, most physicians rely on subjective information provided by the patient and tend to overestimate the risk of death associated with pneumonia. Sometimes patients that are admitted are inappropriately left on the General Medical Floor instead of being transferred to the Intensive Care Unit. This suggests that there is no consistent standard for approaching patients with pneumonia. Now there is a simple predictive program that can be used to detect those patients that are very critical that need to be in the ICU. This program can also help determine which patients can be safely treated as an outpatient if the computed risk of complication is low enough. This program is based on 2 studies from which a prognostic model was developed to accurately identify critical patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia.

Installation:

Simply hotsync the file PSI.prc to your PDA.

Modules:

These programs can be directly accessed from Pneumonia Severity Index but you need to have them loaded on your PDA first.

Download them from HERE:

MEDPedia An Encyclopedia of Medical Programs

NIH Guide for COPD Diagnosis, Management & Treatment Guidelines for COPD

ICU Protocols An iSILO document for the ICU Resident

Lung Injury Score An ARDS Calculator for ICU patients.

Registration:

Version 1.0 is FREE! If you would like to help out a poor resident then purchase MEDPedia. TRY IT BUY IT

Disclaimer:

This program is intended for education purposes only. Please be sure that you have read the literature completely before attempting to apply this program to anyone. Using this program is at YOUR discretion only and YOU bear the responsibility of its use.

Support:

Visit www.MEDSYNC.com for more free programs!

Contact:

JAG@MEDSYNC.com

References:

Bartlett J. “Community Acquired Pneumonia in Adults.” Clinical Infectious Diseases. 1998. Vol:26. Pgs:811-838

Fine MJ, et al (Harvard Medical School, Boston; et al) “A Prediction Rule to Identify Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia.” New England Journal of Medicine. 1997. Vol:336: Pgs:243-250.