Procalcitonin: Promising biomarker to detect sepsis in burns - A prospective study

• Main Authors: H R. Naveen Kumar (Author), Elvino Barreto (Author), M Kingsly Paul (Author), Ashish Kumar Gupta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Sepsis-3 guidelines published in the Journal of American Medical Association is thought to be a pathbreaking effort in the diagnosis of sepsis,[1],[2],[3],[4] but it has limitations with respect to burns population.[5] On the other hand, the American Burn Association (ABA) 2007 guideline...