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- Title
White cell count and intensive care unit outcome.
- Authors
Waheed, U.; Williams, P.; Brett, S.; Baldock, G.; Soni, N.
- Abstract
Summary A high white cell count on admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is generally perceived to be associated with severe illness and poor outcome, but the implications of a low white cell count are less well recognised. We retrospectively analysed data on 4165 patients. The white cell count on admission was split into four categories, leucopenic (< 4.0 × 109 .l-1 ), normal (4.001–10.0 × 109 . l-1 ), leucemoid (10.001–25.0 × 109 .l-1 ) and an exaggerated leucemoid response (> 25.001 × 109 .l-1 ). The mortality of patients with leucopenia on admission to the intensive care unit was higher than those with normal or moderately raised white cell count (37.5% vs. 18.9% and 23.9%, respectively). A leucopenic response, as well as an exaggerated leucemoid response, is associated with an increased mortality.
- Subjects
LEUCOCYTES; INTENSIVE care units
- Publication
Anaesthesia, 2003, Vol 58, Issue 2, p180
- ISSN
0003-2409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.02964_5.x