Background: The utility of procalcitonin testing in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is
not known. We sought to determine the impact of a procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment …

BACKGROUND The utility of procalcitonin to manage patients with infections is unclear. A
systematic review of comparative studies using procalcitonin‐guided antibiotic therapy in …

Study Objectives To describe compliance with antibiotic recommendations based on a
previously published procalcitonin (PCT)‐guided algorithm in clinical practice, to compare …

Differentiating between bacterial and viral infections to decide when to initiate—or stop—
antibiotic therapy in a child with an acute febrile illness continues to represent a challenging …

Objective: There is increasing interest for strategies that could curtail antibiotic resistance in
the critical care setting. We sought to determine the effectiveness and safety of procalcitonin …

Background Procalcitonin testing has been adopted by antimicrobial stewardship programs
as a means of reducing inappropriate antibiotic use, including within intensive care units …

Objectives: Nonspecific clinical symptoms frequently lead to suspicion of bacterial infection
in critically ill children. Clinicians send bacterial cultures for suspected infection and begin …

We retrospectively studied the effect of introducing procalcitonin into clinical practice on
antibiotic use within a large academic pediatric intensive care unit. In the absence of a …

Procalcitonin (PCT) is one of the best blood biomarkers of bacterial infection, with results
published elsewhere showing its high sensitivity and specificity for both invasive and …

Purpose We evaluated the feasibility and impact of PCT-guided antibiotic duration combined
with an established antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) in a community hospital intensive …