Maria Evangelia Adami, Antigone Kotsaki, Nikolaos Antonakos, Efthymia Giannitsioti, Stamatios Chalvatzis, Maria Saridaki, Christina Avgoustou, Karolina Akinosoglou, Konstantina Dakou, Georgia Damoraki, Konstantina Katrini, Panagiotis Koufargyris, Vasileios Lekakis, Antonia Panagaki, Asimina Safarika, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis
BACKGROUND: Sepsis guidelines suggest immediate start of resuscitation for patients with quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) 2 or 3. However, the interpretation of qSOFA 1 remains controversial. We investigated whether measurements of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) may improve risk detection when qSOFA is 1. METHODS: The study had two parts. At the first part, the combination of suPAR with qSOFA was analyzed in a prospective cohort for early risk detection...
February 6, 2024: Critical Care: the Official Journal of the Critical Care Forum