Medscape

Neonatal Sepsis: WHO-Recommended Rx Needs a Major Rethink

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 ...
Medical Dialogues

All Clinical Signs in WHO IMCI Predictive of Sepsis and Mortality in Young Infants: JAMA

Researchers have found in a new systematic review and meta-analysis that all seven clinical signs in the WHO IMCI possible ...
The National Law Review

Unpacking Averages: Understanding the Potential for Bias in a Sepsis Prediction Algorithm, a Case Study

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 ...
Medscape

Neonatal Sepsis Morbidity and Mortality High Across Rich and Poor Countries

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 ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Late-Onset Neonatal Sepsis in a Patient with Covid-19

To rapidly communicate information on the global clinical effort against Covid-19, the Journal has initiated a series of case reports that offer important teaching points or novel findings. The case ...
Scientific American

Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent

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.