Yes 23 (21%) 7 (24%) 30 (27%) 0 (0%) aSeverity of community-acquired pneumonia judged
by the need for intensive care unit (ICU) admission and by mortality. Data presented as the …

Methods A retrospective study, on a 40-bed surgical-medical intensive care unit (ICU). Data
from 300 charts of patients consecutively admitted (between January and March 2009) were …

Introduction Eosinopenia is a cheap and forgotten marker of acute infection that has not
been evaluated previously in intensive care units (ICUs). The aim of the present study was to …

Methods A total of 143 patients were enrolled in this study who were admitted to the ICU and
had SIRS. All patients were divided into a septic group-patients with community-acquired …

Introduction Septic shock is one of the most frequent causes of admission to the intensive
care unit (ICU) and is associated with a poor prognosis. Early and late death in septic shock …

Polynuclear neutrophils can play dual roles in sepsis: on the one hand they mediate major
antimicrobial activities and on the other hand they can contribute to the development of …

Methods This study is part of a 9-month consecutive study of community-acquired severe
sepsis and septic shock in adults at Skaraborg Hospital in the western region of Sweden …

Introduction Our aim was to define early changes of lymphocytes and of NK cells in severe
sepsis and to correlate them with serum levels of soluble triggering receptor expressed on …

Introduction The aims of this study were to assess the reliability of circulating cell-free DNA
(cf-DNA) concentrations, compared with C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT) and …

Purpose To validate the utility of the chemiluminescent assay tor simultaneous
measurement of endotoxemia, and neutrophil activation and responsiveness in a cohort of …