Possible Roles of MDW in Infection Management in Emergency Care

University of Szeged (SZTE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infection; Sepsis

Treatments: Other: blood sample taking

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04448548

MDW

Details and patient eligibility

About

A retrospective study to determine the potential value of MDW among other biomarkers in the diagnosis of infection.

Full description

MDW as a novel indicator can be useful in clinical practice in the emergency care. However, until now, no study has been published about MDW's general relationship and coherence with multiple, conventional laboratory tests for infections, such as PCT, C-reactive protein (CRP), WBC, neutrophil count (NC), neutrophil percentage and immature granulocyte count (IGC) together.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult (18+ years), receiving care for suspected infection

Exclusion criteria

• refuses to sign the consent form