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    Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS)

    Predicts in-hospital mortality in nonsurgical adult patients presenting to the ED.
    When to Use
    Pearls/Pitfalls
    Why Use

    • Critically ill patients, where in-hospital mortality prediction may help guide treatment modalities.

    • Not validated for pediatric patients.

    Not validated for pediatric patients.

    • May not add to clinician gestalt, but can be useful in the prehospital setting for determining whether a patient would benefit from rapid access to advanced life support services.

    • Superior (Olsson 2004) to the Rapid Acute Physiology Score (RAPS) (Rhee 1987) and non-inferior to APACHE II (Olsson 2003).

    • Calculated with values obtained out of hospital, or in hospital without lab studies.

    • Helps guide aggressiveness of treatment with parameters routinely acquired in the prehospital setting.

    <45
    0
    45-54
    +2
    55-64
    +3
    65-74
    +5
    >74
    +6
    >159
    +4
    130-159
    +3
    110-129
    +2
    70-109
    0
    50-69
    +2
    ≤49
    +4
    >179
    +4
    140-179
    +3
    110-139
    +2
    70-109
    0
    55-69
    +2
    40-54
    +3
    ≤39
    +4
    >49
    +4
    35-49
    +3
    25-34
    +1
    12-24
    0
    10-11
    +1
    6-9
    +2
    ≤5
    +4
    <75%
    +4
    75-85%
    +3
    86-89%
    +1
    >89%
    0
    <5
    +4
    5-7
    +3
    8-10
    +2
    11-13
    +1
    >13
    0

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    Creator Insights
    Dr. Thomas Olsson

    About the Creator

    Thomas Olsson, MD, PhD, is a researcher at the internal medicine department of the Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden. He is also a consultant in cardiology, a PCI-operator, and author of the book Emergency Medicine (Liber). Dr. Olsson’s primary research is focused on mortality prediction in ED patients.

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