ICU Management & Practice, ICU Volume 15 - Issue 4 - 2015
- Outpatient: Patients that will have greater than 95% survival and will not need to be hospitalised.
- Very High: Survival greater than or equal to 90%, length of stay (LOS) less than or equal to 14-21 days, 1 to 2 operations needed.
- High: Survival greater than or equal to 90%, LOS 14-21 days, multiple operations necessary, prolonged rehabilitation.
- Medium: Survival greater than 50% but less than 90% even with full treatment.
- Low: Survival greater than 10% but less than 50% despite full treatment.
- Expectant: Survival less than or equal to 10% despite full treatment.
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