Clinical and laboratory factors that predict death in very low birth weight infants presenting with late-onset sepsis

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-146

  Levit, Orly ^a   Bhandari, Vineet ^a   Li, Fang Yong ^a   Shabanova, Veronika ^a   Gallagher, Patrick G ^a   Bizzarro, Matthew J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

fungal; gram negative; infection; late onset sepsis; newborn infant; risk factors for death

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INTRALIPID;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMORBIDITY; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LATE ONSET SEPSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; MYCOSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN APNEA; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

COMORBIDITY; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84892953148     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000024     Document Type: Article

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