Ranson's criteria
"LEGAL"
- Leucocytes >16000
- Enzyme AST >250
- Glucose >200
- Age >55
- LDH >350
Ranson's criteria is used to predict the severity of acute pancreatitis.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
- Add new comment
- 292 reads
-
Was a 2 marks que for exam...there is more to this though. whats is covered by mnemonic is the criteria at time of admission.
At 48hrs, we check base deficit, S. Ca, Hematocrit, Pao2, Fluid loss and BUN change.