Procalcitonin Test Fails to Cut Antibiotic Duration in Kids
Jan 15, 2025 · Compared with usual care, procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy did not reduce the duration of intravenous antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with bacterial infections, …
Procalcitonin to Guide Antibiotic Use in Primary Care - Medscape
Procalcitonin (PCT) levels have been used as a marker for bacterial infection. Could PCT-guided therapy tell apart bacterial from viral respiratory tract infections and help reduce antibiotic use?
Intensivists Still Skittish About Procalcitonin - Medscape
Feb 4, 2015 · PHOENIX — Although procalcitonin testing can help detect degrees of bacterial infection, including sepsis, compliance is low and algorithms have had a negligible impact on …
Serum Procalcitonin in Children With Suspected Sepsis - Medscape
Conclusions: Serum procalcitonin levels show a rapid increase in children with sepsis, even in infants <12 month old, and they have a better prognostic value than C-reactive protein or …
Procalcitonin in Early Post Pediatric Cardiac Surgery - Medscape
Objective: Procalcitonin has emerged as a promising infection marker, but previous reports from small-sized studies suggest nonspecific elevation of procalcitonin after pediatric heart surgery. …
Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy - Medscape
Apr 9, 2010 · The current investigators randomly assigned adult patients with bacterial infections who were expected to be in the ICU for at least 3 days to antibiotic therapy guided by either …
Getting Sepsis Right - Medscape
Jan 10, 2025 · Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic cessation is already endorsed by the Surviving Sepsis guidelines, but conflicting and poor-quality data required a demure, weak …
Serum Procalcitonin Levels in Acute Respiratory Illness
Clinical diagnosis of pneumonia can be difficult and chest radiographs often indeterminate. Is serum procalcitonin a useful biomarker in suspected cases?
FDA Expands Use of Procalcitonin Test to Help Guide ABX Use
Feb 24, 2017 · The Vidas Brahms PCT assay can help determine whether antibiotic treatment should be started or stopped in cases of lower respiratory tract infections and stopped in cases …
Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein as Diagnostic Markers
Both PCT and CRP are valuable markers in predicting SBI in children with fever without source and they perform better than WBC and ANC.