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FDA Expands Use of Procalcitonin Test to Help Guide ABX Use

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms procalcitonin (PCT) test to help clinicians determine whether antibiotic treatment should be initiated or ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

FDA Approves Test to Help Clinicians Make Antibiotic Treatment Decisions

FDA Logo High levels of PCT suggest a patient has a bacterial infection. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the use of the Vidas Brahms PCT Assay (bioMérieux) to help clinicians ...
Healio

FDA clears two tests used to assist treatment decisions for infections, sepsis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA recently approved the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms PCT Assay, which guides antibiotic treatment ...
Business Insider

FDA clears test to help manage antibiotic treatment for lower respiratory tract infections and sepsis

SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms PCT Assay to help health care providers determine ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Procalcitonin testing for diagnosing and monitoring sepsis (ADVIA Centaur BRAHMS PCT assay, BRAHMS PCT Sensitive Kryptor assay, Elecsys BRAHMS PCT assay, LIAISON BRAHMS PCT ...

We have moved Diagnostics guidance 18 to become HealthTech guidance 386. This is to better reflect the NICE HealthTech programme which combines the former NICE Diagnostics Assessment programme, ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Roche submits filing to FDA for cobas® Procalcitonin (PCT) assay to help clinicians assess response of septic patients to treatment

INDIANAPOLIS, March 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced that it has submitted the Elecsys BRAHMS PCT (Procalcitonin) assay for Premarket Notification (510k) to the U.S ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Information for the public

NICE has assessed the procalcitonin tests (ADVIA Centaur BRAHMS PCT assay, BRAHMS PCT Sensitive Kryptor assay, Elecsys BRAHMS PCT assay, LIAISON BRAHMS PCT assay and VIDAS BRAHMS PCT assay) to help ...
Sun Sentinel

Hospital finds new test helps cut infection death rate in half

Imagine going to the hospital for a relatively minor condition like kidney stones or appendicitis and coming home without your arms or legs. This dramatic scenario is not only possible, but is ...
Reuters

Biomerieux gets FDA clearance for VIDAS B.R.A.H.M.S PCT test

July 1 (Reuters) - Biomerieux SA : * Biomerieux receives FDA clearance for expanded use of VIDAS B.R.A.H.M.S PCT test for managing sepsis patients with elevated risk of mortality Source text for Eikon ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Management of Procalcitonin Test Overuse in an Emergency Department Through a Computer Algorithm

Procalcitonin test demand from the emergency department is growing, necessitating the implementation of strategies to address overuse. Successful interventions must be based on information technology.
Medscape

Biomarkers in Community-acquired Pneumonia

S Krüger and T Welte have received funds for speaking at symposia organized on behalf of Brahms AG. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or ...