Development of an accurate score to predict early-onset neonatal sepsis

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 232-234

  Piva, Jefferson P ^a,b,c   Garcia, Pedro Celiny R ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cytokines; neonatal mortality; neonatal sepsis; sepsis score

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY ONSET NEONATAL SEPSIS; EDITORIAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MEDIATOR; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; URINE CULTURE;

EID: 79953071419     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181e8b6f6     Document Type: Editorial

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