Biomarker use in tailored combat casualty care

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 465-473

  Brown, Trevor S ^a   Safford, Shawn ^b   Caramanica, Janet ^a   Elster, Eric A ^a,b,c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Combat; Inflammation; Personalized medicine; Trauma; War surgery; Wound

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLLAGENASE 3; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MATRILYSIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PROCALCITONIN; STROMELYSIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BURN; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LIMB SALVAGE; MEDICINE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SKIN GRAFT; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTIM; WAR; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; WAR; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953757681     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.10.13     Document Type: Review

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