Guidelines for the Use of Procalcitonin for Rational Use of Antibiotics

Gopi C Khilnani; Pawan Tiwari; Kapil Gangadhar Zirpe; Dhruva Chaudhry; Deepak Govil; Subhal Dixit; Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni; Subhash Kumar Todi; Vijay Hadda; Neetu Jain; Manjunath B Govindagoudar; Srinivas Samavedam; Simant Kumar Jha; Niraj Tyagi; Madhusudan R Jaju; Anita Sharma

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24326

Guidelines for the Use of Procalcitonin for Rational Use of Antibiotics

Indian J Crit Care Med. 2022 Oct;26(Suppl 2):S77-S94. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24326.

Authors

Gopi C Khilnani¹, Pawan Tiwari², Kapil Gangadhar Zirpe³, Dhruva Chaudhry⁴, Deepak Govil⁵, Subhal Dixit⁶, Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni⁷, Subhash Kumar Todi⁸, Vijay Hadda⁹, Neetu Jain¹⁰, Manjunath B Govindagoudar¹¹, Srinivas Samavedam¹², Simant Kumar Jha¹³, Niraj Tyagi¹⁴, Madhusudan R Jaju¹⁵, Anita Sharma¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, PSRI Hospital, New Delhi, India.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, School of Excellence in Pulmonary Medicine, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
³ Department of Neuro Trauma Unit, Grant Medical Foundation, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
⁴ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
⁵ Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesia, Medanta - The Medicty, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
⁶ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sanjeevan Surgery Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India; Department of Critical Care Medicine, MJM Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
⁸ Department of Critical Care, AMRI Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
⁹ Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
¹⁰ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders, Pushpawati Singhania Hospital & Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
¹¹ Department of Pulmonology, Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
¹² Department of Critical Care Management, Virinchi Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
¹³ Department of Critical Care, PSRI Hospital, New Delhi, India.
¹⁴ Department of Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
¹⁵ Critical Care Medicine Sunshine Hospital, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India.
¹⁶ Department of Lab Medicine, Fortes Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India.

Abstract

How to cite this article: Khilnani GC, Tiwari P, Zirpe KG, Chaudhary D, Govil D, Dixit S, et al. Guidelines for the Use of Procalcitonin for Rational Use of Antibiotics. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(S2):S77-S94.

Keywords: Antibiotics; Guidelines; Procalcitonin; Sepsis; Stewardship.