Procalcitonin in patients with different types of severe infections
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: B998- Other infectious disease
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/05/052662
- Lead Sponsor
- BE
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients aged >18 years
Patients with suspected infection presenting in ICU
Patients who got admitted to ICU for non-infectious cause and later acquiring nosocomial infections
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with the following findings will be excluded from the study
1. Who underwent major surgery in last 30 days prior to presentation 2. Severe trauma
3. Major burns
4. Non compliant dialysis dependent patients
5. Anaphylaxis
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Correlation of levels of Procalcitonin in patients suspected of having sepsis or septic shock caused by different species of pathogens including bacteria and fungi.Timepoint: At baseline
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate the association of PCT levels with severity of illness determined by SOFA score.Timepoint: 24 hours