Clinical Scoring Systems

Question 1

MUST

Answer 1

nutritional assessment

Question 2

VIP

Answer 2

visual infusion phlebitis, used to monitor infusion sits

Question 3

SIRS criteria

Answer 3

systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Question 4

WELLS score

Answer 4

DVT and PE

Question 5

ASA score

Answer 5

American association of anaesthetics

Classifies patients to determine risk of anaesthesia

Question 6

MRC scale

Answer 6

dyspnoea scale used in COPD

Question 7

Glasgow-Imrie Criteria

Answer 7

severity of acute pancreatitis, PaO2, age, WCC, calcium, urea, LDH, albumin, glucose

Question 8

CHADS2

Answer 8

long term risk of stroke in valvular AF

- congestive HF, hypertenion, age, DM, prior stroke/TIA

Question 9

HASBLED score

Answer 9

1 year risk assessment of major bleeding in patients with AFL: hypertension, abnormal renal/liver function, stroke, bleeding, labile INR, elderly, drugs/alcohol

Question 10

ABCD2

Answer 10

risk of stroke following TIA - age, BP, clinical features of TIA, duration of symptoms, diabetes

Question 11

CIWA

Answer 11

alcohol withdrawal assessment

10 signs and symptoms scored

Question 12

NEWS

Answer 12

national early warning score

?think sepsis

Question 13

Child-Pugh

Answer 13

grading of cirrhosis and risk of variceal bleeding

Question 14

Blatchford score

Answer 14

upper GI bleed, stratifies who is low risk and who is suitable for outpatient management.
Hb, BUN, systolic BP, sex, HR>100, melaena, recent syncope, hepatic disease history, heart failure history

Question 15

CURB-65

Answer 15

treatment of community-acquired pneumonia depends on score, can also predict 30-day mortality