Background: Few comparative studies regarding prognostic scoring systems for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) are available from Indian context.Methods: Hospital-based prospective study to test the comparison between confusion, urea, respiratory rate, blood pressure, age over 65 years (CURB-65), Pneumonia severity index (PSI) and infectious diseases society of America/American thoracic society criteria (IDSA/ATS) scoring systems in patients with community acquired pneumonia.Results: CURB-65 class ≥III, PSI class ≥IV and patients who needed admission to intensive care unit (ICU) based on IDSA/ATS criteria were having sensitivity of 41.7%, 91.7% and 87.5% in predicting ICU admission with a specificity of 89.5%, 59.2% and 73.7% respectively. Their sensitivity in predicting death were 44.4%, 88.9% and 83.3% with a specificity of 87.8%, 54.9% and 68.3% respectively. In both PSI score and IDSA/ATS criteria risk scoring systems, mortality rate, need for ICU admission increased progressively with increasing scores but CURB-65 score did not show this correlation. The PSI class ≥IV was more sensitive in predicting ICU admission than CURB-65 and IDSA/ATS criteria.Conclusions: PSI was most sensitive in both predicting ICU admission and death whereas CURB-65 is most specific in predicting ICU admission and death. But CURB-65 is least sensitive in both predicting ICU admission and death. Even though IDSA/ATS criteria did not have highest sensitivity and specificity as single criteria it had modest sensitivity and specificity in predicting ICU admission and death.

Background: Besides cardiac disease, critical illness patients are often subjected to myocardial injury. Hence, the goal of present study was to analyze the incidence of elevated cardiac troponin levels in critically ill patients and its outcome which in turn can act as a prognostic marker.Methods: The settings were the ICU’s of a tertiary care hospital in south India. A sample of 54 was identified using purposive sampling technique. Serial monitoring of troponin T was done on day 1, 3 and 5. A performa was used to collect the baseline data of who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results: Among 54 patients 17 (31.5%) of them expired. It was found that patients with mean APACHE score were significantly greater among mortality group (P<0.001). When analyzing the outcome in relation to the troponin T levels, it can be concluded that troponin levels were higher among patients who died but it was not statistically significant. (p=0.56, 0.84 and 0.67 on day 1, 3 and 5 respectively). Among the 54 patients it is inferred from the findings that most of the critically ill patients do have high troponin T levels.Conclusions: The study illustrated the incidence of high troponin T levels in critically ill patients which is an informative prognostic indicator. The relation couldn’t be proved due to less sample size and other imposing factors in critically ill such as broad diagnostic categories.