Inflammatory markers in patients with severe burn injury. What is the best indicator of sepsis?

Burns

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-194

  Lavrentieva, Athina ^a   Kontakiotis, Theodore ^a   Lazaridis, Lambis ^a   Tsotsolis, Nikolaos ^a   Koumis, John ^a   Kyriazis, George ^a   Bitzani, Militsa ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Burn patients; C reactive protein; Procalcitonin; Sepsis; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; BURN PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BURNS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 33846781321     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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