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APACHE II | |
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Calculator | MDCalc |
MeSH | D018806 |
LOINC | 9264-3 |
APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system,[1] one of several ICU scoring systems. It is applied within 24 hours of admission of a patient to an intensive care unit (ICU): an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher scores correspond to more severe disease and a higher risk of death. The first APACHE model was presented by Knaus et al. in 1981.[2]