Neonate, fever, sepsis, guidelines, infectionThe presence of fever in the neonatal period demands urgent evaluation from healthcare providers since signs and symptoms of a serious bacterial infection in this age group can be nonspecific. Current practice guidelines recommend that febrile neonates should...
Fever in CNS infection is the most common presenting symptom in children beyond the neonatal age owing to the presence of inflammatory mediators, particularly IL-1 and TNF in the blood or within the CNS. In MCD, fever was the first symptom in children younger than 5 years and 94% developed...
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A prospective study was performed to assess the potential value of IL-6, IL-8 and C-reactive protein serum levels to predict severe bacterial infection or bacteremia in febrile neutropenic children with cancer during chemotherapy. Statistical test used: Friedman test, Wilcoxon-Test, Kruskal-Wallis ...
microbial infections in pregnancyneonatal intensive care unit admissionnewborn blood culturessepsisBACKGROUND: The current recommendation regarding the management of a term newborn delivered of a mother with an intrapartum fever or a diagnosis of clinical chorioamnionitis is that the neonate should have ...
In addition, a neonate with even a slight degree of persistent hypothermia should also be evaluated because meningitis or other serious infections may be associated with a lower than normal temperature. An ill-appearing child between the ages of 6 weeks and 2 years with a fever greater tha...
neonateScarlet fever, due to infection with an erythrogenic toxin-producing Group A streptococcus, is an uncommon and generally mild illness, although serious sequelae do occur. In March 2009, 57 of the 126 (45%) pupils in a primary school in Lancashire, UK developed scarlet fever over a 4...
We searched MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) databases from inception to March 2019 using key words, medical subject heading terms, and Emtree headings, including paracetamol, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, newborn, neonate, infant, baby, child, ...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend measuring body temperature in the axilla, using an electronic thermometer for infants less than 4 weeks of age and chemical dot or electronic thermometers in older children [1], while the American Academy of Pediatrics...