2015 Point-of-Care Testing Shock 
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 2015 Mar;18(3):352-9. They recommended synovial fluid analysis as essential to the diagnosis [30]. Int J Rheum Dis. 2018.09.070.
EB Medicine
JANUARY 2, 2019
Interestingly, groups have examined outpatient care with 2 days of daily IM ceftriaxone vs inpatient IV antibiotic therapy and they found that there may be a higher than acceptable risk in the outpatient setting as several required eventual admission and one developed septic shock in their relatively small trial.
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