Neonatal Sepsis: Looking Beyond the Blood Culture

Neonatal sepsis: looking beyond the blood culture: evaluation of a study of universal primer polymerase chain reaction for identification of neonatal sepsis.

D IFFERENTIATING BACTERIAL SEPSIS FROM other conditions common in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit poses a number of challenges. First, clinical signs such as apnea, feeding intolerance, and need for increased respiratory support are nonspecific but still of concern for bacterial sepsis. These signs often prompt evaluation for sepsis that includes blood culture and antibiotic therapy...

Incidence of thrombocytopenia and changes in various platelet parameters, in blood culture positive neonatal sepsis

Abstract Objective: To assess the incidence of thrombocytopenia and changes in various platelet parameters, in culture positive neonatal sepsis. Methods: This was prospective study conducted over a period of one year from December 2009 to November 2010 in neonatal intensive care unit of DDUH Hospital, a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, North India. All babies who were admitted during this perio...

bacterial culture of neonatal sepsis

neonatal bacterial sepsis is one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates. this retrospective study was performed to determine the incidence of bacterial sepsis with focus on gram negative organisms in neonates admitted at beheshti hospital in kashan, during a 3-yr period, from september 2002 to september 2005. blood culture was performed on all neonates with risk factors or si...

Thoracic epidural block in sepsis: Looking beyond the known

incidence of thrombocytopenia and changes in various platelet parameters, in blood culture positive neonatal sepsis

abstract objective: to assess the incidence of thrombocytopenia and changes in various platelet parameters, in culture positive neonatal sepsis. methods: this was prospective study conducted over a period of one year from december 2009 to november 2010 in neonatal intensive care unit of dduh hospital, a tertiary care hospital in delhi, north india. all babies who were admitted during this perio...