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, found a …

Can Serum Procalcitonin Levels Help Interpret Indeterminate Chest Radiographs in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Respiratory Illness?

Clinical diagnosis of pneumonia can be difficult and chest radiographs often indeterminate. Is serum procalcitonin a useful biomarker in suspected cases?

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 standard …

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 the guidance of ...

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?

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 neutrophil ...

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 of sepsis.

Both PCT and CRP are valuable markers in predicting SBI in children with fever without source and they perform better than WBC and ANC.

Jul 23, 2024 · A procalcitonin-based algorithm may reduce antibiotic overuse. Patients who are hospitalized with acute pancreatitis are susceptible to infectious complications, such as infected …