GROSS ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The CURB-65 is a severity score to predict mortality secondary to community acquired pneumonia and is widely used to identify patients who can be managed as outpatients.

Detailed explanation-2: -CURB-65, also known as the CURB criteria, is a clinical prediction rule that has been validated for predicting mortality in community-acquired pneumonia and infection of any site.

Detailed explanation-3: -The CURB-65 calculator can be used in the emergency department setting to risk stratify a patient’s community acquired pneumonia. The CURB-65 Score includes points for confusion and blood urea nitrogen, which in the acutely ill elderly patient, could be due to a variety of factors.

Detailed explanation-4: -The CURB-65 score is a simple method of assessing and risk stratifying CAP patients. It is particularly useful in a busy emergency department because of its ability to identify a reasonable proportion of low-risk patients for potential outpatient care.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of the earliest developed and most widely used assessment tool is the PORT score, also known as the pneumonia severity index (PSI). This system uses 20 clinical parameters in categories of age, presence of comorbidities, vital sign abnormalities, and laboratory and radiologic findings.