American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 647-653, July 2010

Impact of procalcitonin on the management of children aged 1 to 36 months presenting with fever without source: A randomized controlled trial☆

  • Sergio Manzano, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada H3T 1C5
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  • Benoit Bailey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada H3T 1C5
    • Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada H3T 1C5
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Pediatrics, CHU Ste-Justine, 3175 Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Canada Qc H3T 1C5. Tel.: +1 514 345 4931x6276; fax: +1 514 345 4823.
    • ,
  • Jean-Bernard Girodias, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada H3T 1C5
    • ,
  • Annick Galetto-Lacour, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital HUG, Geneva 1205, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Jocelyne Cousineau, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada H3T 1C5
    • ,
  • Edgard Delvin, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada H3T 1C5

Received 2 February 2009; received in revised form 11 February 2009; accepted 11 February 2009. published online 23 November 2009.

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 Presented in part at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2008, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2008.

☆ We received 200 PCT-Q free of charge from Brahms (Germany).

PII: S0735-6757(09)00092-8

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2009.02.022

American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 647-653, July 2010

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