Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS): Review

Abstract

The patients who are critically sick are those recovering from potentially fatal injuries or other serious medical illness. These patients require intensive care medicine for essential life support, Techniques of intrusive monitoring and care at the end of life. The physicians are often called as intensivist. The nurses who are working in this area are called critical care nurses. The nurses are continuously engaged in managing the critically sick or unsteady patients due to severe injuries, fatal diseases. Hence the assessment, Monitoring, Treatment & their outcome prediction is complex and challenging for ICU nurses. Early Warning Score (Modified) (MEWS) is a system of grading which can use in surgical and medical ICU to detect early deterioration of patients and initiation of prompt action. This article reviews Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) system of scoring; it’s possible use in clinical settings.