MEDICAL experts in Australasia have raised concerns about the rising burden of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) in intensive care units, with no change in mortality rates in these critically ill patients in almost two decades.
In the absence of a specific cure for acute pancreatitis, the Flinders University and Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) collaborative study calls for more targeted clinical research to find treatments aimed at reducing prolonged stays in hospital and mortality in a disease which is increasingly common.
The new study, based on analysis of ANZICS clinical data from 12,635 SAP adult patients, covers three consecutive six-year periods from 2003-2020.
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