PROCALCITONIN Evaluation & Use In Victoria, BC

OTHER POSSIBLE VALUE
Monitoring patients at high risk
Patients on immunosuppressive therapy
Neonates born after PROM, maternal GpB Strep+ve
Post Surgical & post trauma patients
Reduce need for CRP or Lactate in Sepsis
CRP and lactate are not sepsis specific
Many orders are based on monitoring sepsis
response to treatment which is better done with PCT
TAT for PCT better than CRP – not POC like Lactate