Time for a neonatal-specific consensus definition for sepsis

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 523-528

  Wynn, James L ^a   Wong, Hector R ^b,c   Shanley, Thomas P ^d   Bizzarro, Matthew J ^e   Saiman, Lisa ^f   Polin, Richard A ^f  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BLOOD CULTURE; CONSENSUS; CORE TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TIME; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; NEWBORN; NOMENCLATURE; SEPSIS;

BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONSENSUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; SEPSIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84904206804     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000157     Document Type: Review

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