PMID- 36597771 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230307 LR - 20240302 IS - 1540-0514 (Electronic) IS - 1073-2322 (Print) IS - 1073-2322 (Linking) VI - 59 IP - 3 DP - 2023 Mar 1 TI - A PREVENTIVE TOOL FOR PREDICTING BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN WITH BURNS. PG - 393-399 LID - 10.1097/SHK.0000000000002075 [doi] AB - Introduction: Despite significant advances in pediatric burn care, bloodstream infections (BSIs) remain a compelling challenge during recovery. A personalized medicine approach for accurate prediction of BSIs before they occur would contribute to prevention efforts and improve patient outcomes. Methods: We analyzed the blood transcriptome of severely burned (total burn surface area [TBSA] >/=20%) patients in the multicenter Inflammation and Host Response to Injury ("Glue Grant") cohort. Our study included 82 pediatric (aged <16 years) patients, with blood samples at least 3 days before the observed BSI episode. We applied the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) machine-learning algorithm to select a panel of biomarkers predictive of BSI outcome. Results: We developed a panel of 10 probe sets corresponding to six annotated genes ( ARG2 [ arginase 2 ], CPT1A [ carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A ], FYB [ FYN binding protein ], ITCH [ itchy E3 ubiquitin protein ligase ], MACF1 [ microtubule actin crosslinking factor 1 ], and SSH2 [ slingshot protein phosphatase 2 ]), two uncharacterized ( LOC101928635 , LOC101929599 ), and two unannotated regions. Our multibiomarker panel model yielded highly accurate prediction (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.938; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.881-0.981) compared with models with TBSA (0.708; 95% CI, 0.588-0.824) or TBSA and inhalation injury status (0.792; 95% CI, 0.676-0.892). A model combining the multibiomarker panel with TBSA and inhalation injury status further improved prediction (0.978; 95% CI, 0.941-1.000). Conclusions: The multibiomarker panel model yielded a highly accurate prediction of BSIs before their onset. Knowing patients' risk profile early will guide clinicians to take rapid preventive measures for limiting infections, promote antibiotic stewardship that may aid in alleviating the current antibiotic resistance crisis, shorten hospital length of stay and burden on health care resources, reduce health care costs, and significantly improve patients' outcomes. In addition, the biomarkers' identity and molecular functions may contribute to developing novel preventive interventions. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 by the Shock Society. FAU - Tsurumi, Amy AU - Tsurumi A FAU - Flaherty, Patrick J AU - Flaherty PJ AD - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts. FAU - Que, Yok-Ai AU - Que YA AD - Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. FAU - Ryan, Colleen M AU - Ryan CM FAU - Banerjee, Ankita AU - Banerjee A AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Chakraborty, Arijit AU - Chakraborty A FAU - Almpani, Marianna AU - Almpani M FAU - Shankar, Malavika AU - Shankar M AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Goverman, Jeremy AU - Goverman J FAU - Schulz, John T 3rd AU - Schulz JT 3rd FAU - Sheridan, Robert L AU - Sheridan RL FAU - Friedstat, Jonathan AU - Friedstat J FAU - Hickey, Sean A AU - Hickey SA FAU - Tompkins, Ronald G AU - Tompkins RG AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Rahme, Laurence G AU - Rahme LG LA - eng GR - R03 AI151499/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 AI155505/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - U54 GM062119/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Multicenter Study PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20230104 PL - United States TA - Shock JT - Shock (Augusta, Ga.) JID - 9421564 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Child MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Length of Stay MH - *Burns MH - *Sepsis MH - Inflammation PMC - PMC9991965 MID - NIHMS1858399 COIS- L.G.R. has a financial interest in Spero Therapeutics, a company developing therapies to treat bacterial infections. L.G.R.'s financial interests are reviewed and managed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare in accordance with their conflict of interest policies. The other authors report no conflicts of interest. EDAT- 2023/01/05 06:00 MHDA- 2023/03/08 06:00 PMCR- 2024/03/01 CRDT- 2023/01/04 03:53 PHST- 2023/01/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/03/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2023/01/04 03:53 [entrez] PHST- 2024/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 00024382-202303000-00010 [pii] AID - 10.1097/SHK.0000000000002075 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Shock. 2023 Mar 1;59(3):393-399. doi: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000002075. Epub 2023 Jan 4.