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 y học đề tài: Usefulness of procalcitonin for diagnosis of sepsis in the intensive care unit. | Available online http content 7 1 85 Research Usefulness of procalcitonin for diagnosis of sepsis in the intensive care unit Open Access Canan Balci1 Hulya Sungurtekin2 Ercan Gurses3 Ugur Sungurtekin4 and Bunyamin Kaptanoglu5 Specialist Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation Pamukkale Unversity School of Medicine Denizli Turkey 2Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation Pamukkale Unversity School of Medicine Denizli Turkey 3Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation Pamukkale Unversity School of Medicine Denizli Turkey 4Professor Department of General Surgery Pamukkale Unversity School of Medicine Denizli Turkey 5Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry Pamukkale Unversity School of Medicine Denizli Turkey Correspondence Hulya Sungurtekin hsungurtekin@ Received 10 June 2002 Revisions requested 31 July 2002 Revisions received 28 August 2002 Accepted 5 October 2002 Published 30 October 2002 Critical Care 2003 7 85-90 DOI cc1843 This article is online at http content 7 1 85 2003 Balci 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 non-commercial purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Introduction The diagnosis of sepsis in critically ill patients is challenging because traditional markers of infection are often misleading. The present study was conducted to determine the precautions level at early diagnosis and differentiation in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome SIRS and sepsis in comparison with C-reactive protein IL-2 IL-6 IL-8 and tumour necrosis factor-a. Method Thirty-three intensive care unit patients were diagnosed with SIRS sepsis or septic shock in accordance with the American College of Chest Physicians Society of Critical Care Medicine .
