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Role of diagnostic tests for sepsis in children: a review.
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2024 January 24
Paediatric sepsis has a significant global impact and highly heterogeneous clinical presentation. The clinical pathway encompasses recognition, escalation and de-escalation. In each aspect, diagnostics have a fundamental influence over outcomes in children. Biomarkers can aid in creating a larger low-risk group of children from those in the clinical grey area who would otherwise receive antibiotics 'just in case'. Current biomarkers include C reactive protein and procalcitonin, which are limited in their clinical use to guide appropriate and rapid treatment. Biomarker discovery has focused on single biomarkers, which, so far, have not outperformed current biomarkers, as they fail to recognise the complexity of sepsis. The identification of multiple host biomarkers that may form a panel in a clinical test has the potential to recognise the complexity of sepsis and provide improved diagnostic performance. In this review, we discuss novel biomarkers and novel ways of using existing biomarkers in the assessment and management of sepsis along with the significant challenges in biomarker discovery at present. Validation of biomarkers is made less meaningful due to methodological heterogeneity, including variations in sepsis diagnosis, biomarker cut-off values and patient populations. Therefore, the utilisation of platform studies is necessary to improve the efficiency of biomarkers in clinical practice.
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