10 Clinical Minutes: Procalcitonin Utility?

What does procalcitonin tell us? In what clinical situations is it useful? Should we be ordering it? Ben addresses these questions and more with many references for you to do more digging into this clinical conundrum. _______________________________________________________________________________________ For education purposes only. Not to be used for medical advice. Check out our website to find past episodes, give us feedback, find out how to join live, and more: https://www.decodingdx.com/home Time stamps: 00:00 Intro 01:37 Basics 02:38 Infections 03:50 Indications 05:13 Clinical applications 08:38 Does it work? 11:59 Future directions 12:51 Key points & Outro Opening & closing song: "Clear day" by bensound.com