Thus, there remains a serious need for an early and accurate diagnostic test for severe sepsis. Insulin sensitivity (SI) is known to decrease with worsening condition and inflammatory response, and could thus be used to aid clinical treatment decisions. Some glucose control protocols are able to ...
Critical care physician Hollis O'Neal, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine's Baton Rouge campus, presented data that validate a rapid diagnostic test for sepsis at the American Thoracic Society 2023 International Conference. Dr. O'Neal is the na...
Procalcitonin as a diagnostic test for sepsis in critically ill adults and after surgery or trauma: a systematic review and meta-analysis. OBJECTIVE: To quantify the accuracy of serum procalcitonin as a diagnostic test for sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock in adults in intensive care unit....
A fast and easy test for sepsis, or blood poisoning as it is commonly known, has been developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Germany. The credit card-sized diagnostics platform called MinoLab uses magnetic nanoparticles to provide a diagnosis in a f...
Methods For better demographic control,87 verified sepsis and 160 no sepsis cases from the 285 neonates who were hospitalized in Department of Neonatology,Children′s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University,due to suspected sepsis from Jun.2008 to Jun.2009 were collected.Using χ2 test and ...
InterpretationProcalcitoninisahelpfulbiomarkerforearlydiagnosisofsepsisincriticallyillpatients.Nevertheless,theresultsofthetestmustbeinterpretedcarefullyinthecontextofmedicalhistory,physicalexamination,andmicrobiologicalassessment. FundingMinistryofEducationandResearch,theDeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft,ThuringianMinistryforEducation,...
Additionally, using Sepsis-3 criteria, which focuses on organ failure as defined by the SOFA score, might have contributed to a higher sepsis incidence in our group. This inclusive diagnostic approach could account for the observed increase in sepsis rates. We've included culture-positive test ...
Development and validation of a diagnostic model for early differentiation of sepsis and non-infectious SIRS in critically ill children - a data-driven app... Development and validation of a diagnostic model for early differentiation of sepsis and non-infectious SIRS in critically ill children - a...
A readers' guide to the interpretation of diagnostic test properties: clinical example of sepsis. Intensive Care Med 29, 1043–1051 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-003-1761-8 Download citation Received30 October 2002 Accepted13 March 2003 Published07 May 2003 Issue DateJuly 2003 DOI...
Biomarkers for diagnosis of neonatal infections: A systematic analysis of their potential as a point-of-care diagnostics Neonatal infections annually claim lives of 1.4 million neonates worldwide. Until now, there is no ideal diagnostic test for detecting sepsis and thus mana... M Meem,JK Modak...