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Likelihood Ratio (LR) in Emergency Medicine
Showing posts with label bacteremia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bacteremia. Show all posts

2/25/2013

Is CRP useful alone to support the hypotesis of a bacteremia?


Clinical Scenario

It’s a very cold February, but ED is very hot in every sense of the word. 
A 22 y/o student refers stomach pain, chills, fever and diffuse muscolar pain. He has fever (38° C) there is a mild diffuse abdominal pain. 
The CRP value is 30 mg/L. 
Are there flu symptoms, or it is a bacteremia?



Can we use the CRP test for change our clinical suspicion? 


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