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Table 2 The definition of modified clinical pulmonary infection score

From: Effects of intraoperative PEEP on postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical resection for bladder cancer or prostate cancer: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Items

CPIS points

0

1

2

Tracheal secretions

Rare

Abundant

Abundant + purulent

Chest x-ray infiltrates

No infiltrate

Diffused

Localized

Temperature, °C

36.5–38.4

38.5–38.9

≤36.5 or ≥39.0

Leukocyte count, per mm3

4000–11,000

<4000 or >11,000

<4000 or >11,000 + band forms ≥500

PaO2/FiO2, mm Hg

>240 or ARDS

 

≤240 and no evidence of ARDS

Microbiology

Negative

 

Positive

  1. Abbreviations: ARDS Acute respiratory distress syndrome, CPIS clinical pulmonary infection score, PaO2/FiO2 Partial pressure of arterial oxygen/fraction of inspired oxygen