The Procalcitonin And Survival Study (PASS) – A Randomised multi-center investigator-initiated trial to investigate whether daily measurements biomarker Procalcitonin and pro-active diagnostic and therapeutic responses to abnormal Procalcitonin levels, can improve survival in intensive care unit patients.
To investigate whether a treatment strategy, that is guided by daily measurements of the infection biomarker “Procalcitonin” can reduce the mortality rate in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Apart from this, secondary aims concern reducing several early and late complications to infection, hospitalization and antibiotic comsumption.