Role of international normalized ratio in nonpulmonary sepsis screening: An observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Currently, there is a lack of sepsis screening tools that can be widely used worldwide. Pulmonary sepsis can be of sufficient concern to physicians due to their noticeable symptoms, which usually rely less on screening tools.

Aim

To investigate the efficiency of the international normalized ratio (INR) for the early rapid recognition of adult nonpulmonary infectious sepsis.

Methods

This is a prospective observational study. A total of 108 sepsis patients and 106 nonsepsis patients were enrolled according to relevant inclusion and exclusion criteria. Commonly used clinical indicators, such as white blood cell, neutrophil count, lymphocyte count, neutrophil-lymphocyte count ratio (NLCR), platelets (PLT), prothrombin time, INR, activated partial thromboplastin

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8464464 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature