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    Attention COACH STUDY participants:

    The principal investigators of the study request that you use the official version of the modified score here.

    National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2

    Determines the degree of illness of a patient and prompts critical care intervention (recommended by NHS over original NEWS).

    IMPORTANT

    Tips for COVID-19: Use for Crisis Standards of Care. Used for subgroup analyses (not for Crises Standards of Care) in Cao et al (2020) NEJM’s Lopinavir-Ritonavir study in COVID-19.

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Recommended by the NHS (UK) over the original NEWS. 

    When to Use
    Pearls/Pitfalls

    • Patients ≥16 years old.

    • Do not use in children <16 years old or pregnant patients.

    • The Royal College of Physicians recommends the NEWS2 in the following settings:

      • Emergency: for initial assessment, serial monitoring, and assessment for triage.

      • Ward: for initial inpatient assessment and serial monitoring.

      • Prehospital: for communication of illness severity to receiving hospitals.

    May not be reliable in patients with spinal cord injury due to functional disturbance of autonomic responses.

    ≤8
    +3
    9-11
    +1
    12-20
    0
    21-24
    +2
    ≥25
    +3
    No
    Yes
    Supplemental O₂
    +2
    Room air
    0
    ≤35.0°C (95°F)
    +3
    35.1-36.0°C (95.1-96.8°F)
    +1
    36.1-38.0°C (96.9-100.4°F)
    0
    38.1-39.0°C (100.5-102.2°F)
    +1
    ≥39.1°C (102.3°F)
    +2
    ≤90
    +3
    91-100
    +2
    101-110
    +1
    111-219
    0
    ≥220
    +3
    ≤40
    +3
    41-50
    +1
    51-90
    0
    91-110
    +1
    111-130
    +2
    ≥131
    +3
    Alert
    0
    New-onset confusion (or disorientation/agitation), responds to voice, responds to pain, or unresponsive
    +3
    Confirmed positive
    Suspected
    Unlikely
    Confirmed negative

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    Dr. Gary B. Smith

    About the Creator

    Gary B. Smith, Cert Med, FRCA, FRCP, is a visiting professor at the School of Health & Social Care, University of Bournemouth, UK. He is director of the UK Deteriorating Hospital Patient conference and co-director of the International Conferences on Rapid Response Systems. Professor Smith co-developed RSVP (Reason-Story-Vital Signs-Plan), for communicating patient deterioration and the Chain of Prevention, a paradigm for preventing patient deterioration.

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