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Title: | Neonatal Bacterial Infection |
Authors: | Bernhard Resch |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | InTech |
Abstract: | 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. |
link: | http://www.intechopen.com/books/neonatal-bacterial-infection |
Keywords: | Medicine |
ISBN: | 978-953-51-1124-5 |
Theme: | 教科書-醫學類 |
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