TY  - CHAP
AU  - Ketevan Nemsadze
ED  - Bernhard Resch
Y1  - 2013-04-30
PY  - 2013
T1  - Early Detection and Prevention of Neonatal Sepsis
N2  - Neonatal sepsis still remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the newborn, particularly in preterm, low birth weight infants. Despite advances in neonatal care, overall case-fatality rates from sepsis may be as high as 50%. Clinical signs of bacterial infection are vague and non-specific, and up to now there exists no easily available, reliable marker of infection despite a large bulk of studies focussing on inflammatory indices in neonatology. Every neonatologist is faced with the uncertainty of under- or over- diagnosing bacterial infection. In this book three topics will be discussed: clinical presentation including a general approach to sepsis neonatorum and two distinct diagnoses  pneumonia and osteomyelitis  diagnostic approaches including C-reactive protein and the immature myeloid information, and prevention and treatment of bacterial infection with immunoglobulins.
BT  - Neonatal Bacterial Infection
SP  - Ch. 1
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/56121
DO  - 10.5772/56121
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-16
ER  -