MODERN LABORATORY PARAMETERS OF DIAGNOSING SEPSIS

Abstract

Despite impressive advances in modern medicine, sepsis and severe infections are still serious problems. And the most threatening thing about it is that these problems are only getting worse as medicine advances. Every year, 18 million cases of sepsis are reported worldwide, 30% of which are fatal. The statistics of sepsis is steadily increasing due to the aging of the population, the spread of immunosuppressive conditions, cancer chemotherapy, and the widespread use of invasive technologies [1]. Rapid differential diagnosis and monitoring of systemic inflammation associated with surgery, trauma and burns is of particular importance [1,2,3].