Ep 173 Febrile Infant – Risk Stratification and Workup
Emergency Medicine Cases
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Procalstonan: A Good Biomarker for Fever
Procalstonan increases faster than CRP and ESR. It allows you a better opportunity earlier in the infection to detect these serious bacterial and invasive bacterial infections. In a series of 3,200 infants, not one bacterial meningitis was missed. The most sensitive and specific tests we have in clinical medicine are PCR tests. We amplify them so that they're very sensitive,. They look for areas of genetic coding that are very specific.
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