DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF PROCALCITONIN IN PREDICTING SEPSIS IN BURNS PATIENTS

Patients who have suffered from burns are at an increased risk of dying from sepsis. The combination of a systemic inammatory response and a recognised infection is what medical professionals call sepsis. If the infection is not treated, then it will lead to severe sepsis, which is characterised by organ dysfunction, low perfusion, and low blood pressure. The systemic inammatory response syndrome, often known as SIRS, may have an infectious or a noninfectious origin. When dealing with patients who have suffered serious trauma or burns, it is often difcult to determine whether SIRS is the consequence of the injury itself or whether it is related to a superimposed infection. In patients with SIRS, the majority of the clinical symptoms of infection, including fever, tachycardia, and leukocytosis, were also present. As a result, in order to circumvent this problem, the American Burns Association established a consensus panel, and criteria were drafted in order to dene sepsis in burns patients. In the past, a number of research have been carried out to determine the value of the PCT in both burns and non-burns related situations . Even in the absence of sepsis, the value of PCT may be modestly elevated due to the localised infection. Therefore, the diagnostic threshold for sepsis is quite low when using the cut off value that was examined in the earlier investigations. This study was carried out to determine the PCT value in burns patients and also to locate a threshold value that may be used to suspect sepsis in its early stages. We intend to incorporate this threshold value as a protocol into our existing set up