Mathieu Oberlin, Guillaume Buis, Karine Alamé, Mikaël Martinez, Marie Paule Bitard, Lise Berard, Xavier Losset, Frederic Balen, Bruno Lehodey, Omide Taheri, Quentin Delannoy, Sabrina Kepka, Duc-Minh Tran, Pascal Bilbault, Julien Godet, Pierrick Le Borgne
BACKGROUND: The assessment of acute heart failure (AHF) prognosis is primordial in emergency setting. Although AHF management is exhaustively codified using mortality predictors, there is currently no recommended scoring system for assessing prognosis. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recommends a comprehensive assessment of global AHF prognosis, considering in-hospital mortality, early rehospitalization rates and the length of hospital stay. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to prospectively evaluate the performance of the Multiple Estimation of risk based on the Emergency department Spanish Score In patients with AHF (MEESSI-AHF) score in estimating short prognosis according to the ESC guidelines...
July 31, 2023: European Journal of Emergency Medicine: Official Journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine