Your patient with pancreatitis has a Ranson rule score of 8. The clinician should recognize that this is a risk of:
A. Pleural involvement
B. Alcoholism
C. High mortality
D. Bile duct obstruction
ANS: C
The Ranson rule uses a score determined by MRI results, with an index possible range of 0 to 10. A categorization of patients indicates the risk of both mortality and complication from pancreatitis. Patients at the low end of the index (1–3) are predicted to have a low risk of mortality (3%) and complications (8%), whereas patients scoring at the high end (7–10) of the index are predicted to have a higher incidence of mortality (17%) and/or complications (92%).
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