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SOAR Pneumonia Score
Aka: SOAR Pneumonia Score
- See Also
- CURB-65
- Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Indications
- Pneumonia in the Nursing Home Assessment for Disposition (Outpatient, Inpatient or ICU admission)
- Background
- Modified from CURB-65
- Removes confusion and BUN criteria from CURB-65 and adds PaO2 criteria
- Criteria: Assign one point for each of positive criteria
- Partial arterial oxygen pressure to FIO2 ratio (PaO2/FIO2 Ratio) <250
- Respiratory Rate 30 breaths/min or higher
- Systolic Blood Pressure <90 mmHg or Diastolic Blood Pressure <60 mmHg
- Age 65 years or older
- Interpretation
- Score 0-1: Outpatient management (30 day mortality <8%)
- Score 2 or more: Inpatient management (30 day mortality 33%)
- References
- El-Solh (2010) Chest 138(6): 1371-6 [PubMed]