A prospective study comparing two severity scoring systems in acute pancreatitis
Phase 3
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Patients with Acute pancreatitis
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/04/013307
- Lead Sponsor
- B R Singh hospital and centre for medical education and research
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 102
Inclusion Criteria
1. clinically evident features of Acute Pancreatitis like:
epigastric and periumbilical pain that radiates to the back, nausea and/or vomiting that typically does not relieve the pain, dehydration, poor skin turgor, tachycardia, hypotension and dry mucous membranes, flank and periumbilical ecchymosis
2. With raised serum lipase at least three times the upper limit of normal reference values.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients with recurrent pancreatitis
2. Patients who are diagnosed cases of other causes of acute abdomen like intestinal obstruction, peptic ulcer perforation,etc.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Ransons Prognostic Score, Glasgow Prognostic Score and the CT Severity Index correlate with each other in cases of Acute Pancreatitis. For mild cases of Acute Pancreatitis, Glasgow Prognostic Scoring system and Ransons Prognostic Score may be adequate to prognosticate the disease.CT scan may not be done if there is improvement in symptoms with conservative management or in patients with mild, uncomplicated pancreatitis.Timepoint: 72 hours
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method CT scan may not be done if there is improvement in symptoms with conservative management or in patients with mild, uncomplicated pancreatitis.Timepoint: CT scan is done after 72 hours of admission.