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Aug 1, 2021 · This guideline addresses the evaluation and management of well-appearing, term infants, 8 to 60 days of age, with fever ≥38.0°C. Exclusions are noted.
Certain risk factors and clinical indicators are “red flags” which signify a high likelihood of early-onset neonatal infection. Any risk factor or clinical indicator identified by maternity staff before or following delivery should prompt a careful clinical assessment of the baby without delay.
Sep 29, 2022 · Objectives: Assess the etiology of early and late-onset neonatal sepsis. Evaluate various clinical and laboratory findings associated with neonatal sepsis. Differentiate the various treatment and management options available for neonatal sepsis.
- Meenakshi Singh, Mahdi Alsaleem, Cory P. Gray
- 2022/09/29
Neonatal sepsis can be early onset (≤ 3 days of birth) or late onset (after 3 days). Early-onset sepsis usually results from organisms acquired intrapartum, and symptoms appear within 6 hours of birth.
May 1, 2012 · Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Diagnostic tests for early-onset sepsis (other than blood or CSF cultures) are useful for identifying infants with a low probability of sepsis but not at identifying infants likely to be infected.
- Richard A. Polin, Newborn
- 2012
Mar 29, 2015 · When appropriate specimens for diagnostic evaluations are collected in clinically stable patients, then empirical antimicrobial therapy should be initiated for neonatal sepsis.
Dec 1, 2018 · Our purpose in this clinical report is to provide a summary of the current epidemiology of neonatal sepsis among infants born at ≥35 0/7 weeks’ gestation and a framework for the development of evidence-based approaches to sepsis risk assessment among these infants.
