Procalcitonin in the Post-Operative Burn Patient
Ludo Masole, Chikwendu J. Ede, Adelin Muganza · 2023
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Description
Ludo Masole, Chikwendu Ede, and Adelin Muganza published a burn care study in two thousand twenty-three on a blood marker after surgery. Procalcitonin rises with bacterial infection and can signal sepsis. Burn patients are at high risk, but surgery itself may move the marker.
Thirty-four patients were recruited around burn wound cleaning surgery. Blood was drawn on the day of surgery and the three days after, with cultures on the first and last days. Marker levels rose over the days and sat above the normal cut-off in most patients either way. By day three, levels differed clearly between patients with positive and negative cultures. The authors suggest burn units need a higher cut-off, though the group was too small to set one.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ludo Masole, Chikwendu J. Ede, Adelin Muganza |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |