Publications by authors named "Shahzad Ahmad Mumtaz"
Article Synopsis
- The ISARIC mortality score is a tool designed to predict the risk of in-hospital death among COVID-19 patients, primarily validated on a British population, prompting the need for testing its effectiveness in other regions.
- This study focused on external validation of the ISARIC score in a large ICU in Saudi Arabia, analyzing data from 1493 adult COVID-19 patients admitted between March 2020 and June 2021.
- Results indicated that the ISARIC score effectively predicted mortality, with a cutoff value of >9 showing 70.5% sensitivity and 73.97% specificity, establishing its reliability for critically ill COVID-19 patients in the Saudi cohort.
Background: New sonographic quality criteria to optimize optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurements were suggested. The latter were correlated to elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) in traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Aim: We investigated whether ONSD measurements were correlated to simultaneous ICP measurements in severe TBI.