Publications by authors named "Tricia Gilbert"
Article Synopsis
- Acute liver failure (ALF) is a serious and rare initial indication of metastatic liver disease, typically leading to high mortality rates.
- A 64-year-old man experienced sudden liver issues linked to a hidden pancreatic cancer, presenting with significant weight loss and high levels of liver enzymes and bilirubin in his blood tests.
- Despite treatment, including dialysis for kidney failure and finding cancer markers in his ascitic fluid, the patient's condition worsened, leading to his death from cardiac arrest.
Objective: To determine whether mortality prediction based on a current model of outcome prediction is accurate in obstetric patients.
Methods: Consecutive obstetric admissions to a medical intensive care unit from 1991 to 1998 were reviewed to determine whether mortality prediction is feasible in obstetric patients based on a widely used model. The Simplified Acute Physiologic Score (SAPS II) was used to predict the probability of hospital mortality.