Evaluated the severity of emergency infectious patients by combination of procalcition and D-dimer
Abstract：Objective To evaluate disease severity of emergency infectious patients by combining of procalcition and D-dimer.Methods By a review of the infectious patients admitted in emergency department between April, 2012 to March, 2013, we collected the results of procalcition and D-dimer when the patients arrived in the hospital, and also got the APACHEⅡ score in the first 24 hours.We wanted to find out the relationship among procalcition, D-dimer and APACHEⅡ score. Results The clinical data of 464 patients were collected.The results of procalcition, D-dimer and APACHEⅡscores were analyzed by linear correlation, and we discovered that there was a positive linear correlation between each of them.Grouped by the results of procalcition or D-dimer respectively, we found that the score of APACHEⅡincreased with the data of them.Grouped the patients by combination of the procalcition and D-dimer, we divided them into three groups.Group A was both the procalcition and D-dimer increased, group B was one of them increased, and group C was none increased.We found that the acute physiology score in the group A was higher than the other groups ( P <0.05 ) . Conclusion There are positive linear correlations between procalcition, D -dimer and APACHEⅡscore in emergency infectious patients.And it is helpful to emergency doctor to judge disease severity using the ligation of procalcition and D-dimer.
Keywords：Procalcition( PCT)D-dimerInfectionAPACHEⅡ
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 331-333,334 )