Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Surgical Unit 1, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
World J Emerg Surg. 2021 Mar 24;16(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s13017-021-00357-0.
Procalcitonin (PCT) is widely considered as a highly sensitive biomarker of bacterial infection, offering general and emergency surgeons a key tool in the management of surgical infections. A multidisciplinary task force of experts met in Bologna, Italy, on April 4, 2019, to clarify the key issues in the use of PCT across the surgical pathway. The panelists presented the statements developed for each of the main questions regarding the use of PCT across the surgical pathway. An agreement on the statements was reached by the Delphi method, and this document reports the executive summary of the final recommendations approved by the expert panel.
降钙素原 (PCT) 被广泛认为是细菌感染的高度敏感生物标志物,为普通外科和急诊外科医生提供了一种管理外科感染的关键工具。一个多学科专家工作组于 2019 年 4 月 4 日在意大利博洛尼亚开会,以阐明在外科途径中使用 PCT 的关键问题。小组成员介绍了针对每个主要问题制定的关于在外科途径中使用 PCT 的陈述。通过 Delphi 方法达成了对陈述的一致意见,本文报告了专家小组批准的最终建议的执行摘要。