Table 1.
Demographic Data for Patients Based Upon Severity of Illness Classifications.
Table 2.
Biodata and Laboratory values for Patients Based Upon Severity of Illness Classifications.
Fig 1.
Median PCT Values by Category.
This graph represents the median PCT values for the five patient severity groups. The lower dashed horizontal line represents the 0.1 ng/mL PCT cut-off value indicative of no infection. The upper dotted horizontal line represents the 2.0 ng/mL PCT cut-off value indicative of severe sepsis.
Fig 2.
Receiver Operator Curve for the Detection of Infection in ALF and ALI patients Using PCT.
The ROC analysis resulted in an AUC of 0.697 with a sensitivity of 64.3% and a specificity of 62.0% for the use of PCT in the detection of infection this population of ALF patients.
Table 3.
Demographic and Biodata Results Based Upon the Calculated Infection Cut-off Value of 1.62 ng/mL.
Fig 3.
Median APAP vs All Other Etiologies PCT values by Category.
This graph represents the median PCT values for the four ALF patient severity groups sorted by etiologies: APAP and All Others etiologies (combined viral and other) with the lower dashed line indicative of no infection (0.1 ng/mL) and the upper dotted line indicative of severe sepsis (2.0 ng/mL).