Lingjun Xu, Lingfeng Yuan, Keqiang Chi, Dan Zhong, Liang Huang
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Abstract
Background: Early diagnosis of pediatric sepsis is difficult, so it is necessary to find a reliable auxiliary diagnostic method. The purpose of the study was to assess the role of RDW in the diagnosis of pediatric sepsis.
Methods: We did a case control study reviewing pediatric inpatients (≥28 days, < 18 years old) who were diagnosed with sepsis between April 2020 and November 2022. According to the sepsis-3 and Pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (pSOFA) scoring standards, 66 septic inpatients of the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) were included in the sepsis group and 66 non-septic inpatients of the PICU were included by using the random sampling method during the same period as the control group.
Results: RDW values in the sepsis group were higher than those in the control group (P < 0.001). The cut-off value, sensitivity, specificity and area under curve of RDW for sepsis were 39.15, 0.955, 0.758 and 0.943,respectively.
Conclusions: Our study confirms that RDW may have a good value on the early diagnosis of pediatric sepsis.