IL6 and septic shock: Rios-Toro et al.,12 Buchegger and Preininger,13 and Kemmler et al.(14) demonstrated that interleukin-6 (IL-6), C-reactive protein(CRP), and procalcitonin (PCT) may be good candidates for diagnosingsevere sepsis and septic shock cases, the latter developing a point-of-care(POC) device for sepsis detection.