Background Neonatal sepsis remains a challenging issue, due to sophisticated and time consuming tests needed confirm diagnosis.
 Objective To assess the applicability of neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) platelet (PLR) as diagnostic markers in neonatal sepsis.
 Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted Neonatology Ward Kandou General Hospital, Manado, North Sulawesi. Neonates w...

BACKGROUND Management of bacterial sepsis as a common cause of hospitalization and a life threatening clinical syndrome is a challenge. In previous studies, incorrect diagnosis of sepsis and unnecessary treatment have been frequently reported. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnosis and treatment of cases with a primary diagnosis of sepsis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Of 410...

BACKGROUND Sepsis is a global healthcare problem, characterized by whole body inflammation in response to microbial infection, which leads to organ dysfunction. It is becoming a frequent complication in hospitalized patients. Early and differential diagnosis of sepsis is needed critically to avoid unnecessary usage of antimicrobial agents and for proper antibiotic treatments through the screeni...

background: the management of neonatal sepsis especially in developing countries is problematic.  there is no single reliable marker of infection available at the present.  c-reactive protein (crp) has long been used as a marker of infection. serial measurements of crp are recommended as a guide for duration of antibiotic therapy.   objective: to evaluate the serial crp measurement as a guideli...

Methods We performed a nation-wide analysis of coded sepsis cases from 2007 to 2013 based on German Diagnosis Related Groups Statistics, Hospital Statistics, and Causes of Death Statistics. Sepsis cases were identified by a) clinical sepsis codes for sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock (R65.0!, R65.1!, R57.2, respectively, as secondary diagnosis) from the DRG Statistics and b) microbiologica...

Severe sepsis (systemic inflammation secondary to infection combined with acute organ dysfunction) and septic shock (severe sepsis combined with hypotension not rectified by fluid resuscitation) are complex multifactorial medical conditions with significant associated morbidity and mortality, and are among the leading causes of death in the intensive care unit (ICU). Even with aggressive treatm...

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...