{"title":"Utility of Biomarkers in the Evaluation of Fever in the Intensive Care Unit After Brain Injury","authors":"Umer Mukhtar, Umer Shoukat, M. Athar, F. Rincon","doi":"10.29046/JHNJ.012.1.006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Fever is frequent in patients with neurologic injury. Differentiating infectious fever from central fever can be challenging. It is important to diagnose the cause of fever in the neurological intensive care unit because of the detrimental effects of fever on brain injured patients. This is a comprehensive review of the role of the two commonly available biomarkers, C-reactive protein and procalcitonin in differentiating the central fever from infectious fever.","PeriodicalId":355574,"journal":{"name":"JHN Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JHN Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.29046/JHNJ.012.1.006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Fever is frequent in patients with neurologic injury. Differentiating infectious fever from central fever can be challenging. It is important to diagnose the cause of fever in the neurological intensive care unit because of the detrimental effects of fever on brain injured patients. This is a comprehensive review of the role of the two commonly available biomarkers, C-reactive protein and procalcitonin in differentiating the central fever from infectious fever.