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01.03.2016 | What's New in Intensive Care
What’s new with biomarker-driven clinical strategy in sepsis and circulatory failure?
verfasst von:
Armand Mekontso Dessap, Lorraine B. Ware, Lila Bouadma
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2016
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Excerpt
Biomarkers are increasingly used in modern medicine. Troponin monitoring for acute coronary syndrome is a good example of widespread biomarker-driven clinical strategy. However, in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, the cardiac ischemic origin and clinical implications of elevated troponin are unclear, although this biomarker may be of help in identifying septic patients with sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction and/or a risk of death [
1]. Only a few biomarkers have proved useful to drive clinical strategies in acutely ill patients. We will examine the main recent findings in this era in ICU patients with sepsis or circulatory failure. …