CURB-65
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{|class="wikitable" align="right" |- !colspan=2| CURB-65 |- ! Symptom !! Points |- | Confusion ||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | BUN>7 mmol/L (19 mg/dL)||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | Respiratory rate≥30 ||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | BP: S<90mmHg, D≤60mmHg||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | Age≥65 ||style="text-align:center;"|1 |}
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Predicting death
- Pneumonia
- Any infection
- References
{|class="wikitable" align="right" |- !colspan=2| CURB-65 |- ! Symptom !! Points |- | Confusion ||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | BUN>7 mmol/L (19 mg/dL)||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | Respiratory rate≥30 ||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | BP: S<90mmHg, D≤60mmHg||style="text-align:center;"|1 |- | Age≥65 ||style="text-align:center;"|1 |}
CURB-65, also known as the CURB criteria, is a clinical prediction rule that has been validated for predicting mortality in community-acquired pneumonia and infection of any site. The CURB-65 is based on the earlier CURB score and is recommended by the British Thoracic Society for the assessment of severity of pneumonia. It was developed in 2002 at the University of Nottingham by Dr. W.S. Lim et al. In 2018 a new toolkit was presented on the basis of CURB-65.
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