Keywords:
APACHE; ICU; NMR spectroscopy; SPC; diagnostic modeling; lipids; lipoproteins; mass spectrometry; metabolic phenotyping; pharmaco-metabonomics; plasma IVDr; sepsis; septic shock
Abstract:
Delayed diagnosis of patients with sepsis or septic shock is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. UPLC-MS and NMR spectroscopy were used to measure panels of lipoproteins, lipids, biogenic amines, amino acids, and tryptophan pathway metabolites in blood plasma samples collected from 152 patients within 48 h of admission into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where 62 patients had no sepsis, 71 patients had sepsis, and 19 patients had septic shock.