Vienna—The predictive value of both the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score and ASA physical status (ASA-PS) for 30-day mortality among patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery is moderate, according to a post hoc substudy of the InCare trial. For unplanned admission to the ICU within 30 days of surgery, the prognostic value of both tools was poor.
“We expected the APACHE II score to perform better than the ASA-PS, as the APACHE II score results in