Sepsis leads to life-threatening organ failure due to dysregulated host responses to infection and presents uniquely across age groups. Neonatal sepsis, affecting infants in their first 28 days, ...

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

A genetic signature in newborns can predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms even start to show, according to a new study. The study, led by University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University ...

The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...

Despite the mortality and long-term sequelae occurring secondary to neonatal meningitis, past studies have shown that lumbar punctures (LPs) are not done in neonates as often as they should be. This ...

Among the 981,869 children, 0.8% were diagnosed with sepsis and less than 0.1% diagnosed with meningitis; overall, 1.2% of children developed epilepsy during the study period. Children with clinically ...

A simple blood test can tell doctors when it is safe to stop antibiotics in patients recovering from sepsis, a review led by ...

The Sepsis “Sniffer” Algorithm, a digital sepsis alert embedded in an EHR, is a useful tool but it may not be a viable alternative to the Nurse Screening Tool, a manual sepsis alert, according to a ...

Infants born weighing less than 1500 grams are extremely vulnerable for hospital-acquired infections and central-line associated bloodstream infections are more common in NICUs than ICUs.” — Greg ...