Paediatric & Neonatal Acute Scores
Every paediatric & neonatal acute scores calculator on CalcEngines — unit converters, derived indices and interpretive tools, each with its formula, a worked example and the reference intervals it is judged against.
7 calculators in this section
- Apgar Score CalculatorFive signs, 0 to 2 each, at one and five minutes. The score describes the newborn's condition at that moment and nothing else: the AAP and ACOG state that it does not predict individual mortality or neurologic outcome and that by itself it does not equal asphyxia.
- Centor, McIsaac and FeverPAIN Score CalculatorThree sore-throat scores, computed together, with each one's own published likelihood of isolating streptococcus and the cohort it came from. Centor was derived in adults in an emergency room, FeverPAIN in UK primary care from age 5 — and applying either outside its population is the error.
- Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale CalculatorThe modified eye, verbal and motor criteria for an infant or pre-verbal child, 3 to 15. The minimum is 3 and never 0, an untestable component returns no total at all, and the published paediatric versions disagree about both the maximum and the age at which they apply.
- Pediatric Appendicitis Score CalculatorEight items, 0 to 10, derived in 1,170 children aged 4 to 15. Its derivation paper reported 100% sensitivity at a cut-off of 6; the best independent validation found 92.8% sensitivity and 69.3% specificity at that same 6, and proposed two thresholds instead of one.
- Silverman-Andersen Respiratory Score CalculatorFive signs of neonatal work of breathing, 0 to 10, and it runs the opposite way to the Apgar: here a HIGHER score is WORSE. The two are recorded on the same infant minutes apart, and inter-rater reliability for this one is poor.
- Westley Croup Score CalculatorFive observations, 0 to 17, with two late signs carrying ten of the seventeen points. It was derived as the outcome measure of a 20-child drug trial in 1978, not as a triage instrument, and the severity bands in circulation disagree by two points.
- Yale Observation Scale CalculatorSix observations weighted 1, 3 or 5, total 6 to 30, derived in febrile children aged 3 to 36 months in 1982. In 4,591 febrile infants aged 60 days or under, a normal score of 10 or less had a sensitivity for serious bacterial infection of 11.6% — which is the most important thing on this page.