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Fast, accurate testing to help save lives when seconds count

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by the body overreacting to an infection. It affects more than 30 million people around the world each year and results in 6 million deaths. Identifying and treating the condition as early as possible can greatly increase a patient’s likelihood of survival.

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Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by the body overreacting to an infection. It affects more than 30 million people around the world each year and results in 6 million deaths. Identifying and treating the condition as early as possible can greatly increase a patient’s likelihood of survival.

Quality assays supporting more confident decision-making

The VITROS® Critical Care Assay menu, including sepsis assays, offers fast, accurate results to help clinicians determine the best course of treatment that can mean the difference between life and death for a patient.

VITROS® B•R•A•H•M•S PCT (Procalcitonin) Assay

Offers excellent analytical correlation and clinical concordance to the B•R•A•H•M•S clinical decision points

  • Offers excellent analytical correlation and clinical concordance to the B•R•A•H•M•S clinical decision points
  • Gives confidence in decisions for clinicians and therapeutic guidance for starting and safely stopping antibiotic treatment in support of your institution’s antibiotic stewardship initiatives3,4
  • Enables more requests to be fulfilled from difficult draws with a small sample volume of 30 μL
  • Provides reliable results through quantification of endogenous hemolysis, icterus and turbidity with MicroSensor technology
  • Maximizes efficiency with long calibration intervals of 56 days

VITROS®  Immunodiagnostic Products IL-6 Reagent Pack*

Confidently and accurately treat critically ill patients by adding Interleukin-6 (IL-6) assay to your lab’s menu to enable the detection of inflammatory diseases in your most sensitive patients so clinicians can treat patients sooner.

  • IL-6 assay offers a 7.5-hour time advantage over C-reactive protein (CRP) to reach diagnostic cutoff for both bacterial and viral infections5  [BP1][WL2][BP3][AC4][BP5]
  • Results you can trust because they are standardized across the VITROS® Systems family of instruments with excellent analytical performance
  • Cost-effective diagnostic complement to CRP and PCT [SK6][AC7][WL8][BP9]with utility in your most critically ill patients

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*Not available in all countries. Contact your local Ortho representative for more information.

1Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (2020). VITROS Immunodiagnostics Products B•R•A•H•M•S PCT Reagent Pack and Calibrators Instructions For Use. Pub. No. GEM1370_XUS_EN version 2.0.

2Foster M, Vealey J, Barba M. Best Practices in Laboratory Operations – Advances in Acquisition Decision Criteria. Business Briefing Report: Labtech 2004.

3Harbarth S, Holeckova K, Froidevaux C, et al. Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8 in critically ill patients admitted with suspected sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2001;164(3):396-402. doi:10.1164/ajrccm.164.3.2009052

4Müller B, Becker KL, Schächinger H, Rickenbacher PR, Huber PR, Zimmerli W, Ritz R. Calcitonin precursors are reliable markers of sepsis in a medical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med. 2000;28(4):977-983. doi:10.1097/00003246-200004000-00011

5Chart adapted from: Brunkhorst FM, Heinz U, Forycki ZF. Kinetics of procalcitonin in iatrogenic sepsis. Intensive Care Med. 1998;24(8):888-889. doi:10.1007/s001340050683 | Dandona P, Nix D, Wilson MF, Aljada A, Love J, Assicot M, Bohuon C. Procalcitonin increase after endotoxin injection in normal subjects. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1994;79(6):1605-1608. doi:10.1210/jcem.79.6.7989463 | Harbarth S, Holeckova K, Froidevaux C, et al. Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8 in critically ill patients admitted with suspected sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2001;164(3):396-402. doi:10.1164/ajrccm.164.3.2009052 | Meisner M. Procalcitonin – Biochemistry and Clinical Diagnosis. ISBN 978-3-8374-1241-3, UNI-MED, Bremen 2010[BP10]