PCR-based rapid sepsis diagnosis effectively guides clinical treatment in patients with new onset of SIRS

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 447-455

  Lodes, Uwe ^a   Bohmeier, Beate ^a   Lippert, Hans ^a   König, Brigitte ^a   Meyer, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Antimycotics; Blood culture; CRP; LightCycler SeptiFast assay; Multiplex PCR; Procalcitonin; Sepsis; SIRS; Surgical ICU

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 84859821717     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0870-z     Document Type: Article

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