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Revision as of 14:33, 28 July 2023

Background

Components

  • Measured at onset of bacteremia
Criterion Points
Fever (°C)
    ≤35 or ≥40 2
    35.1-36.0 or 39.0-39.9 1
    36.1-38.9 0
Hypotension: drop by >30 SBP or >20 DBP, or vasopressors, or SBP <90 2
Mechanical ventilation 2
Cardiac arrest 4
Mental status
    Alert 0
    Disoriented 2
    Stuporous/comatose 4

Interpretation

  • ≥4 usually used as a cutoff for increased risk of death
Mortality predicted by PBS for various infections.
Score SAB (30-dy mortality)[1] Nonbacteremic infections (14-day mortality)[2]
0 8%
1 5%
2 15%
3 40%
<4 5%
≥4 40%
4 47%
5 33%
6 43%
≥7 75%
  1. Roth JA, Tschudin-Sutter S, Dangel M, Frei R, Battegay M, Widmer AF. Value of the Pitt Bacteraemia Score to predict short-term mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: a validation study. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2017 Aug. 10 [cited 2023 Feb. 8];147(3132):w14482. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2342
  2. Heather Henderson, Courtney L Luterbach, Eric Cober, Sandra S Richter, Robert A Salata, Robert C Kalayjian, Richard R Watkins, Yohei Doi, Keith S Kaye, Scott Evans, Vance G Fowler, Jr, Robert A Bonomo, Anthony Harris, Sonia Napravnik, David Van Duin, The Pitt Bacteremia Score Predicts Mortality in Nonbacteremic Infections, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 70, Issue 9, 1 May 2020, Pages 1826–1833, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz528