Infectious Diseases Point-of-Care Testing Shock Wellness 
Taming the SRU
AUGUST 30, 2023
As the name would suggest, inflammatory markers are biological markers of, well, inflammation. A 2015 meta-analysis of 9 studies consisting of 725 patients published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases found PCT far superior to CRP, with PCT having a sensitivity of 90 and specificity of 98% [36]. J Arthroplasty.
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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