Design of a new mortality indicator in acute coronary syndrome on admission to the Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: To design a mortality indicator in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Design: A multicenter, observational descriptive study was carried out.

Participants: Patients with ACS admitted to the ICUs included in the ARIAM-SEMICYUC registry between January 2013 and April 2019.

[Prognostic value of interleukin 6 for death of patients with sepsis].

Background And Objective: To see the influence of interlukin-6 (IL-6) as an inflammatory mediator in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis, assessing whether their serum levels during their stay in intensive care unit (ICU) serve as an early mortality prognostic marker

Material And Methods: A prospective observational cohort study with 203 ICU patients from a third level hospital. A descriptive analysis was made, X(2) test used to compare qualitative variables, T-Student test to compare quantitative ones. We made a logistic regression multivariant analysis on admission, third and seventh day of stay with dependent variable mortality and independent variables age, gender and IL-6, lactate and C-reactive protein plasma levels as well as APACHE II and SOFA scores.

[Infective endocarditis: the role of surgery].

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious disease which can carry a bad prognosis if it is not appropriately treated. Sometimes the clinical evolution is unfavourable despite an optimal medical therapy with antibiotics. Surgery in these cases has an important role to eliminate the source of infection or to perform a valve replacement.