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2170. Association Between End-of-Treatment Procalcitonin Levels with Mortality & Recurrent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

BACKGROUND: In the only randomized controlled trial utilizing procalcitonin in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), 30% of patients failed to normalize procalcitonin levels by the end of treatment, a finding of uncertain clinical importance. The prognostic value of procalcitonin for VAP mortality...

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Autores principales: Schuiteman, Sam, Albin, Owen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9752940/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac492.1790