tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: " Procalcitonin as a marker of bacterial infection in the emergency department: an observational study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Procalcitonin as a marker of bacterial infection in the emergency department: an observational study. | Critical Care February 2004 Vol 8 No 1 Chan et al. Research Open Access Procalcitonin as a marker of bacterial infection in the emergency department an observational study Yi-Ling Chan1 Ching-Ping Tseng2 Pei-Kuei Tsay3 Shy-Shin Chang1 Te-Fa Chiu1 and Jih-Chang Chen4 Attending Physician Department of Emergency Medicine Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center Taoyuan Taiwan 2Associated Professor The School of Medical Technology Chang Gung University Taoyuan Taiwan 3Assistant Professor Center of Biostatistics Chang Gung University Taoyuan Taiwan 4Chief Department of Emergency Medicine Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center Taoyuan Taiwan Correspondence Shy-Shin Chang sschang@ Received 23 September 2003 Accepted 16 October 2003 Published 20 November 2003 Presented in part at the 31st Critical Care Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine San Diego CA January 2002. Critical Care 2004 8 R12-R20 DOI cc2396 This article is online at http content 8 1 R12 2004 Chan et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X . This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Introduction Procalcitonin PCT has been proposed as a marker of infection in critically ill patients its level is related to the severity of infection. We evaluated the value of PCT as a marker of bacterial infection for emergency department patients. Methods This prospective observational study consecutively enrolled 120 adult atraumatic patients admitted through the emergency department of a 3000-bed tertiary university hospital in May 2001. Fifty-eight patients were infected and 49 patients were not infected. The white blood cell counts the serum C-reactive protein CRP level mg l and the PCT level ng ml were compared between the infected and noninfected groups of .