2015 Point-of-Care Testing Sepsis 
Taming the SRU
AUGUST 30, 2023
A 2015 prospective, cross-sectional study of 78 Thai patients published in the International Journal of Rheumatic Disease demonstrated a sensitivity of 59% and specificity of 84% for PCT with a cut-off of 0.5 Sepsis PCT may have some utility in guiding posttest probability for sepsis when the diagnosis is unclear.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
However, results may take some time and, as such, rapid point-of-care tests are increasingly used. This is true in life-threatening conditions such as sepsis. However, when children do not have features of sepsis, oral antibiotics are equally effective. 2015 May 19;12(5):e1001825. 2015 Feb;20(2):55–60.
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