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Research reports from Shriners Hospital for Children provide new insights into sepsis in children

Published in Blood Weekly, February 8th, 2007

Researchers detail in "Serum cytokine differences in severely burned children with and without sepsis," new data in sepsis. According to a study from the United States, "The aim was to determine whether serum cytokine profiling early after burn can be used to identify patients at high risk of developing and subsequently dying of sepsis. A case series study was designed to determine whether serum cytokine profiling allows identification of patients at highest risk of developing and dying of sepsis at the time of hospital admission."

"All patients were treated according to the standard of burn care at our facility. Forty-four children (1-19 years old) with more than 40%...

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