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Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. · Jul 2015
ReviewEarly onset neonatal sepsis: diagnostic dilemmas and practical management.
- A R Bedford Russell and R Kumar.
- Neonatal Unit, Birmingham Women's NICU, Birmingham, UK.
- Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2015 Jul 1;100(4):F350-4.
AbstractEarly onset neonatal sepsis is persistently associated with poor outcomes, and incites clinical practice based on the fear of missing a treatable infection in a timely fashion. Unnecessary exposure to antibiotics is also hazardous. Diagnostic dilemmas are discussed in this review, and suggestions offered for practical management while awaiting a more rapidly available 'gold standard' test; in an ideal world, this test would be 100% sensitive and 100% specific for the presence of organisms.Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.
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