Sequential Sepsis Related Organ Failure Assessment Sofa Score
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The sequential organ failure assessment sofa is a morbidity severity score and mortality estimation tool developed from a large sample of icu patients throughout the world.
Sequential sepsis related organ failure assessment sofa score. It uses three criteria assigning one point for low blood pressure sbp 100 mmhg high respiratory rate 22 breaths per min or altered mentation glasgow coma scale 15. The qsofa score also known as quicksofa is a bedside prompt that may identify patients with suspected infection who are at greater risk for a poor outcome outside the intensive care unit icu. The sofa sequential organ failure assessment scoring system was developed in 1994 during a consensus conference organized by the european society of intensive care and emergency medicine in an attempt to provide a means of quantitatively and objectively describing the degree of organ failure over time in individual patients and in groups of patients with sepsis. The sequential organ failure assessment score sofa score previously known as the sepsis related organ failure assessment score is used to track a person s status during the stay in an intensive care unit icu to determine the extent of a person s organ function or rate of failure.
Organ dysfunction is represented by an increase in the sequential sepsis related organ failure assessment sofa score 5 of 2 points or more which is associated with an in hospital mortality. Unlike other scoring systems such as the saps ii and apache ii systems the sofa was designed to focus on organ dysfunction and morbidity with less of an emphasis on mortality prediction. It is the dedication of healthcare workers that will lead us through this crisis.