materials and methods the level of plasma il-6 and blood culture were checked in all the term neonates suspicious to sepsis admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of shahid beheshti hospital of kashan during 2010-2011. positive blood culture was considered as definite sepsis and negative blood culture as suspicious sepsis. then, the level of il-6 was compared with the state of blood cultu...

The Canadian Neonatal Network conducted a trial of Evidence-Based Practice for Improving Quality (EPIQ) between 2002 and 2005. Improved neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) outcomes established credibility for quality improvement. We surveyed team members and physician leaders to examine critical success factors and barriers to improvement during EPIQ. Respondents agreed that EPIQ had a high uti...

Objective: To determine the frequency of thrombocytopenia in neonatal sepsis. Study Design: Descriptive Cross Sectional study. Setting: King Edward Medical University, Mayo Hospital Lahore. Period: November 2020 to April 2021. Material & Methods: The study was conducted over a period six months. Neonates with clinical diagnosis sepsis admitted Neonatal intensive care unit, who fulfilled inc...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence factors and etiologies associated with late neonatal sepsis in preterm neonates in a neonatal intensive care unit. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of secondary data pertaining to preterm neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit between 2008 and 2010 and was gathered from medical charts. The outcome variable, late neonatal sepsis, was ...

bacterial sepsis is one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in neonates. it has been recognized a gradual change in spectrum of organisms responsible for neonatal sepsis. in this study we have evaluated changing trend of incidence and antibiotic susceptibility in neonatal late - onset sepsis (los) in 2-periods. this study is based on results of blood culture in neonatal late-on...

Globally, an estimated 500,000 newborns die each year from serious neonatal infections, which account for about 15% of all neonatal deaths. “Suspected sepsis” is one of the most common reasons for admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The challenge to the physician has always been trying to differentiate newborns with early onset sepsis from other non-infectious pathology whose ...