Neonatal Bacterial Infection (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789535111245)

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.

Author: Bernhard Resch
ISBN-10: 9535111248
ISBN-13: 9789535111245
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2013
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.31d