Search Tag: Brahms PCT
2021 24 Mar
Speakers Valerie Vaughn Director of Hospital Medicine Research in the Division of General Internal Medicine University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Neil Powell Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK Find Thermo Fisher Scientific on Social Media Read more
2020 13 Nov
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics , a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, today announced its VITROS® Immunodiagnostic Products TSH3 (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) Reagent Pack and Calibrator has achieved CE Mark and will be commercially available in the beginning of December* to aid clinicians in assessing and diagnosing thyroid and/or pituitary gland...Read more
2020 14 Sep
Professor Michael Mansour is a physician-scientist with a research concentration in immune responses against invading pathogens. He attends on the Clinical Transplant Infectious Diseases and Immunocompromised Host Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital - Division of Infectious Diseases, where he cares for solid and stem cell transplant recipients...Read more
2020 03 Aug
Procalcitonin is widely used to assess the risk of bacterial infection and disease progression. Can it be an additional tool to identify COVID-19 patients at risk of severe disease? Key Points Procalcitonin (PCT) is a widely used biomarker to assess the risk of bacterial infection and disease progression. Early evidence...Read more
2020 23 Jun
Procalcitonin – A Critical Biomarker Procalcitonin (PCT) is a member of the calcitonin family and known as a critical biomarker for bacterial infections. To be effective a biomarker must have high diagnostic accuracy and allow early and rapid diagnosis. PCT fulfills these requirements and has already demonstrated superior diagnostic accuracy compared...Read more
2017 22 Mar
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms PCT Assay to help health care providers determine if antibiotic treatment should be started or stopped in patients with lower respiratory tract infections, such as community-acquired pneumonia, and stopped in patients with sepsis. This is the first test to use...Read more