Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. Clinical diagnosis is difficult and no reliable diagnostic test exists. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a central mediator ...

These study results were also published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine ... The median time to death for patients with sepsis was 4.6 days, with 41% of deaths occurring within 72 hours ...

Conclusions In this largest reported pediatric severe sepsis cohort to date, prevalence increased from 2004 to 2012 while associated mortality decreased. Age, cardiovascular comorbidity ...

Introduction: Neonatal sepsis diagnosis is a problem ... In 14 patients the exam was positive which 4 were in first, 6 in second and 4 were in third group. Second CRP measured in 36 patients ...

Includes data for only those cases where the causative organism was identified (37.6% of all cases, n = 14,433). 1 Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University in ...