Neonatal Bacterial Infection / edited by Bernhard Resch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Resch, Bernhard, Editor.

Contributor:

Resch, Bernhard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bacterial diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

IntechOpen 2013

Rijeka, Croatia : IntechOpen, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 18, 2022).

ISBN:

9789535171355

9535171356