A basic program for calculation of APACHE II and Elebute scores and sepsis evaluation in intensive care medicine.

This paper describes a program for bedside-practicable calculation of APACHE II score, providing an additional option for both a rapid and sensitive screening as well as for a more specific sepsis assessment by the Elebute score in case of a putative diagnosis of sepsis. Thus, diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of septic patients and the assessment of disease progression and classification of "responders" to therapy can be promptly available in the ICU setting. The program is written in BASIC and therefore can easily be adapted to most microcomputers available on the market.