Abstract
Multiple organ failure is the leading cause of death in critically ill patients. Scoring systems are now widely used in the intensive care unit (ICU) to describe organ dysfunction and predict survival. Early systems focused primarily on survival prediction or the presence or absence of organ failure, but newer scores can describe the evolution of individual and multiple organ dysfunction over time. The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score is one of the most widely used organ dysfunction scores and in this chapter we will discuss its development, its current role in intensive care patients, and its likely use in the future.
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Vincent, JL. (2008). SOFA Score: A Keystone for Grading Multiple Organ Dysfunction. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0773-4_23
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