Procalcitonin decrease over 72 hours in US critical care units predicts fatal outcome in sepsis patients

INTRODUCTION: Close monitoring and repeated risk assessment of sepsis patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) is important for decisions regarding care intensification or early discharge to the ward. We studied whether considering plasma kinetics of procalcitonin, a biomarker of systemic bacterial...

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Autores principales: Schuetz, Philipp, Maurer, Paula, Punjabi, Vikas, Desai, Ami, Amin, Devendra N, Gluck, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23787145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc12787

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23787145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc12787

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