BACKGROUND Sepsis is one of the most common causes of neonatal hospital admissions and is estimated to cause 26% of all neonatal deaths worldwide. While waiting for results of blood culture, it is necessary to initiate an empirical choice of antibiotics based on the epidemiology of causative agents and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in a locality. OBJECTIVE To determine the major causative or...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and American Burn Association (ABA) criteria predict sepsis in the burn patient and develop a model representing the best combination of novel clinical sepsis predictors. A retrospective, case-controlled, within-patient comparison of burn patients admitted to a single intensive care unit from Janua...

Introduction Neonatal sepsis is a leading cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in the world. The objective of the current study was to detect the common causative microorganisms of neonatal sepsis and their antimicrobial resistance patterns in a rural secondary hospital in Tamil Nadu, India. Materials and Methods Neonates (0-28 days) admitted to this newborn care unit from October 2013 t...

sepsis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates. the most common pathogens of bacterial sepsis and antibiotic sensitivity patterns vary in different parts of the world. the aim of this study was to determine the most common pathogens and outcome of neonatal sepsis and also antibiotic sensitivity patterns of klebsiella species. a retrospective descriptive study was carried o...

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...

Objective To evaluate the adequacy of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in diagnosing neonatal sepsis and role of CRP in determining the duration of antibiotic treatment in neonatal sepsis. Methods In this validation study, we included 135 neonates with suspected diagnosis of sepsis within duration of nine months from September 2016 to May2017 in Children Hospital Multan. Blood samples were draw...

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...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate a newly developed PCR-based reverse blot hybridization assay (PCR-REBA), REBA Sepsis-ID (M&D, Wonju, Korea), to rapidly detect the presence of bacteremia and antimicrobial resistance gene in blood culture samples. METHODS One thousand four hundred consecutive blood culture samples from patients with a delta neutrophil index greater than 2.7% we...

Introduction: Neonatal sepsis, and Neonatal septiemia are terms that have been used to describe the systemic response to infection in newborn infants. Sepsis can affect neonatal metabolism and the level of blood sugar. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalance of “Hypoglycemia” in neonates with primary diagnosis of sepsis in neonatal ward and NICU of khorrammabad pediatric hospital on...

neonatal sepsis is an important cause of death and morbidity in newborns and is diagnosed by isolation of organism in blood culture. in several reports,reliablity of blood cultures were done from umbi lical catheters,have been demonstrated. the objective of the present study was to determine,wether an inde welling umbilical catheter, could be an alternative site for blood culture. in a prospect...