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Niggemann P, Rittirsch D, Buehler PK, et al. Incidence and Time Point of Sepsis Detection as Related to Different Sepsis Definitions in Severely Burned Patients and Their Accompanying Time Course of Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers. J Pers Med. 2021;11(8)doi: 10.3390/jpm11080701.
Niggemann, P., Rittirsch, D., Buehler, P. K., Schweizer, R., Giovanoli, P., Reding, T., Graf, R., Plock, J. A., & Klein, H. J. (2021). Incidence and Time Point of Sepsis Detection as Related to Different Sepsis Definitions in Severely Burned Patients and Their Accompanying Time Course of Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers. Journal of personalized medicine, 11(8), . https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11080701
Niggemann, Pia, et al. "Incidence and Time Point of Sepsis Detection as Related to Different Sepsis Definitions in Severely Burned Patients and Their Accompanying Time Course of Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers." Journal of personalized medicine vol. 11,8 (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11080701
Niggemann P, Rittirsch D, Buehler PK, Schweizer R, Giovanoli P, Reding T, Graf R, Plock JA, Klein HJ. Incidence and Time Point of Sepsis Detection as Related to Different Sepsis Definitions in Severely Burned Patients and Their Accompanying Time Course of Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers. J Pers Med. 2021 Jul 23;11(8). doi: 10.3390/jpm11080701. PMID: 34442346; PMCID: PMC8401386.
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J Pers Med. 2021 Jul 23;11(8). doi: 10.3390/jpm11080701.

Incidence and Time Point of Sepsis Detection as Related to Different Sepsis Definitions in Severely Burned Patients and Their Accompanying Time Course of Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers.

Journal of personalized medicine

Pia Niggemann, Daniel Rittirsch, Philipp Karl Buehler, Riccardo Schweizer, Pietro Giovanoli, Theresia Reding, Rolf Graf, Jan Alexander Plock, Holger Jan Klein

Affiliations

  1. Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, Burn Center, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
  2. Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
  3. Regenerative and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
  4. Pancreas Research Laboratory, Department of Visceral Surgery & Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
  5. Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland.

PMID: 34442346 PMCID: PMC8401386 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11080701

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of sepsis in burn patients remains difficult for various reasons. One major problem is the definition of sepsis itself. Therefore, previous and current sepsis definitions are a matter of ongoing validation, but a well-defined consensus on which clinical and laboratory parameters to incorporate in such a definition is lacking. The aim of the present study was to compare the incidence and time-related occurrence of septic events according to different definitions as well as their accompanying time course of pro-inflammatory biomarkers.

METHODS: Across the first 14 days after admission, the incidence and time point of sepsis according to three different definitions (Sepsis-3, Sepsis American Burns Association [ABA] 2007, Sepsis Zurich Burn Center) were assessed on a daily basis in adult burn patients with total body surface area (TBSA) ≥15% admitted to the Zurich Burn Center between May 2015 and October 2018. In order to investigate how well daily drawn proinflammatory biomarkers (white blood cells (WBCs), C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), and novel pancreatic stone protein (PSP)) reflect the progression of sepsis depending on its type of definition, a longitudinal mixed model analysis was performed across the first 14 days for septic and non-septic patients. Additionally, the relative increase of biomarker levels 24, 48, and 72 h prior to a septic event was analyzed for each definition used.

RESULTS: In our cohort of 90 severely burned patients, Sepsis-3 identified 46 patients (51.1%) as septic, while ABA 2007 and the Zurich Burn Center definition counted 33 patients (36.7%) and 24 patients (26.6%), respectively. Sepsis-3 detected sepsis about 1 day earlier than Sepsis ABA 2007 (

CONCLUSIONS: Despite the ongoing dilemma of how to define sepsis in burn patients, a continually calculated SOFA score as used in Sepsis-3 is advantageous to early identify a patient's detrimental progression to sepsis. Inclusion of biomarkers, such as PSP, may help support the burn specialist's diagnosis of sepsis and could improve the diagnostic performance of current and future definitions in burn patients.

Keywords: burns; pro-inflammatory biomarkers; sepsis

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