Status:

COMPLETED

Procalcitonin Increase Identifies Critically Ill Patients at High Risk of Mortality

Lead Sponsor:

Danish Procalcitonin Study Group

Conditions:

Sepsis - to Reduce Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit

Eligibility:

All Genders

Brief Summary

Procalcitonin, a marker of infection has often been compared to clinical pictures as for instance "clinical sepsis". This has given som problems in the interpretation of these studies, because of the ...

Detailed Description

Sepsis is a major cause of mortality in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Efforts have been made to reduce the time needed to diagnose sepsis in order to reduce mortality from sepsis-related multi-organ ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Admitted to the ICU 4131 of Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital in the year 2002
  • \-

Exclusion

  • Recent (\< 3 months) liver transplantation
  • Expected admission \< 24 h

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2002

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

End Date :

January 1 2003

Estimated Enrollment :

450 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00144638

Start Date

January 1 2002

End Date

January 1 2003

Last Update

September 5 2005

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Dept. 4131, Rigshospitalet, Cph University Hosp., DK

Copenhagen, Denmark, DK-2100