Daily Assessment of Organ Dysfunction and Survival in Intensive Care Unit Cardiac Surgical Patients

Our new 10-variable risk index performs very well, with calibration and discrimination very high, better than general severity systems; and it is an appropriate tool for daily risk stratification in ICU cardiac surgery patients. Thus, it may serve as an “expert system” for diagnosing organ failure, decision making, resource evaluation, and predicting mortality among ICU cardiac surgical patients.