NICE guidance on sepsis is of limited value in postoperative colorectal patients: the scores that cry 'wolf!'
Discussion Q-SOFA appears to perform little better than a coin toss at identifying postoperative sepsis after colorectal cancer resection and is inferior to the SIRS criteria. More work is required to assess whether a combination of scoring criteria, biochemical markers and automated tools could increase accurate detection of postoperative infection and trigger early intervention.
PMID: 29364019 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - Category: Surgery Authors: Herrod P, Cox M, Keevil H, Smith K, Lund JN Tags: Ann R Coll Surg Engl Source Type: research