Lung Injury Prediction Score (LIPS)
Lung Injury Prediction Score (Gajic 2011 worksheet) for ALI/ARDS risk.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Sepsis
- Yes
- Pneumonia
- Yes
- Hypoalbuminemia
- Yes
- FiO2 > 0.35 or > 4 L/min
- Yes
Result: LIPS 5.5: high risk for ALI/ARDS development per Gajic 2011 (cut point >4).
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- <=4
- Not above the Gajic 2011 ALI/ARDS high-risk cut point.
- >4
- High risk for ALI/ARDS development per Gajic 2011 (Table 4: sensitivity 0.69, specificity 0.78).
- Conditional rows
- Emergency surgery adds 1.5 only to a listed surgery; diabetes subtracts 1 only if sepsis.
What you enter
- Shock (2)
- Aspiration (2)
- Sepsis (1)
- Pneumonia (1.5)
- Surgery: orthopedic spine (1)
- Surgery: acute abdomen (2)
- Surgery: cardiac (2.5)
- Surgery: aortic vascular (3.5)
The other 15 fields
- That surgery is an emergency (1.5)
- Trauma: traumatic brain injury (2)
- Trauma: smoke inhalation (2)
- Trauma: near drowning (2)
- Trauma: lung contusion (1.5)
- Trauma: multiple fractures (1.5)
- Alcohol abuse (1)
- Obesity BMI > 30 (1)
- Hypoalbuminemia (1)
- Chemotherapy (1)
- FiO2 > 0.35 or > 4 L/min (2)
- Tachypnea RR > 30 (1.5)
- SpO2 < 95% (1)
- Acidosis pH < 7.35 (1.5)
- Diabetes mellitus, only if sepsis (-1)
How this is calculated
Citation
Gajic O, Dabbagh O, Park PK, et al. Early identification of patients at risk of acute lung injury: evaluation of lung injury prediction score in a multicenter cohort study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011;183(4):462-470. Read the sources: Gajic 2011 ↗, Full text ↗
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