Sepsis
New Sepsis Findings from University of Basel Published
Published in Blood Weekly, September 1st, 2011
"In a recent report, Riedel et al. proposed a procalcitonin cutoff of 0.1 ng/ml to rule out bacteremia in adult patients presenting to the emergency department with systemic infections. Procalcitonin levels were higher in patients with true bacteremia than in patients with negative blood cultures or bacteremia due to possible contaminants. For prediction of bacteremia, a procalcitonin...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2011-09-01)
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