Are arterial pH and arterial oxygenation essential for risk stratification in perforation peritonitis?
The modified APACHE II, excluding arterial pH and oxygenation, is simplified, reliable and objective for prediction of outcome in perforation peritonitis.
MIF serves as a general marker for systemic inflammation in septic and nonseptic acute critical illness, but MIF does not discriminate for severity or differentiate between infectious and noninfectious origins of an acute critical illness.