Despite major advances in neonatal care during the past few decades, bacterial sepsis continues to be a major cause of mortality and morbidity in preterm very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. 1, 2 ...

A dangerous and often deadly condition, sepsis affects more than a million Americans every year and the cases continue to increase. A new study examines whether procalcitonin (PCT) testing helps to ...

Sepsis, a host-mediated response to a systemic infection, is a leading cause of mortality worldwide (1). Early recognition of infection and initiation of effective therapy is essential to reducing ...

At the hospital where I work, procalcitonin (PCT)-guided treatment has become the standard of care. The infectious disease service, in collaboration with our intensive care unit (ICU) director, just ...

Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to assess the risk of bacterial infection and to aid in antibiotic stewardship in patients with lower respiratory tract infections and sepsis. In this ...

A new U.K. study led by the University of Liverpool has examined whether an additional blood test called procalcitonin (PCT) ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms procalcitonin (PCT) test to help clinicians determine whether antibiotic treatment should be initiated or ...

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - September 09, 2016) - Diazyme Laboratories announces that it will continue to distribute its procalcitonin (PCT) test in Germany through its German subsidiary Diazyme ...

The new B•R•A•H•M•S PCT direct point of care assay requires just one drop of blood for a reliable infection diagnosis and clinical decisions in the acute care setting within 20 minutes HENNIGSDORF, ...