First-line treatment of neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with ampicillin-gentamicin — as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) — needs to be reassessed, a ...

"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 ...

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, ...

All live born infants in 223 villages of Odisha state were followed at home for 60 days. Suspect sepsis cases were referred to study hospitals for further evaluation including blood culture. Of 12 622 ...

BETA-hemolytic streptococci of Lancefield Group B have been implicated in human disease almost from the time when the precipitin-grouping technic first came into use. 1–3 Since that time additional ...

Epic has made changes to its sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy and make its alerts more meaningful to clinicians. An Epic spokesperson told Becker’s in an emailed statement that ...

LISBON, Portugal — A shift toward broader-spectrum antibiotics and increasing antibiotic resistance has led to high levels of mortality and neurodevelopmental impacts in surviving babies, according to ...

Hospital patients are at risk of a number of life-threatening complications, especially sepsis—a condition that can kill within hours and contributes to one out of three in-hospital deaths in the U.S.

Hospitals are increasingly turning to data science to reduce adverse clinical outcomes, such as decreasing the prevalence of sepsis, the No. 1 cause of unplanned hospital readmissions. In a webinar ...

Croydon University Hospital has confirmed major changes to its maternity care services after the death of a baby who was born ...