“Significant Biomarkers Differ in Blood Culture-Positive and -Negative Sepsis in Burn Patients: A Retrospective Study with Gram-Negative Bacteria as Common Causes and Carbapenem Resistance Linked to Unfavorable Outcomes”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38116468

This retrospective study of burn patients found that while certain routine biomarkers were significant in both blood culture-positive and -negative sepsis, lactate dehydrogenase was significant only in the negative group and red cell distribution width, blood urea nitrogen, and lymphocyte count were significant only in the positive group, and common causes of sepsis in burn patients are gram-negative bacteria, with carbapenem resistance associated with unfavorable outcomes.