scholarly journals Blood Culture Contamination in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Shiraz, Southwest-Central Iran

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Hashemizadeh ◽  
Abdollah Bazargani ◽  
Mohammad Ali Davarpanah
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Blood Culture ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Central Iran

scholarly journals Morbidity and mortality due to surgical congenital malformations from the perspective of surgical neonatal ICU outside a maternity service: a retrospective cohort study

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (9) ◽  
pp. 1252-1257
Author(s):  
Sofia Oliva-Costa ◽  
Samir Nahass ◽  
Andréa Dourado ◽  
Selma Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Blood Culture ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Maternity Service ◽  
Gram Positive ◽  
Gram Positive Bacteria

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of patients treated at a level III surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit outside of a maternity service and analyze possible risk factors for mortality in this population. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study evaluating patients admitted to a level III surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from June/2015 to November/2017. Univariate analysis was performed by the Chi-square test and T-student test or Mann-Whitney test. Multivariate analysis by logistic regression was performed including in the model the variables with a P-value <0.2 in univariate analysis. Kaplan-Meier curve and Log-Rank test were performed using the variables that were statistically associated with death in the multivariate analysis. A significance level of a=5% and an error B=80% were adopted. RESULTS: During this period, 246 patients were admitted to this service. 58 (23.8%) patients died, with a mean time until death of 18 days. Half of the patients had a clinical diagnosis of sepsis (50.6%), blood culture was positive in 25.2%, and gram-positive bacteria (48.4%) were the main pathogens isolated. The variables that remained in the final model after multivariate analysis were diagnosis of congenital heart disease (OR = 4.5; p = 0.016), clinical diagnosis of sepsis (OR = 8.1; p = 0.000), and isolation of gram-positive bacteria in blood culture (OR = 3.9; p = 0.006). CONCLUSION: The level III surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit outside of a maternity service has a different profile of morbidity and mortality, and death was associated with the diagnosis of congenital heart disease, the clinical diagnosis of sepsis, and the isolation of gram-positive bacteria in the blood culture

scholarly journals Pattern of clinical manifestation and antibiotics sensitivity of Burkholderia Cepacia sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of tertiary care centre of North India

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 2650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharad Bansal ◽  
Rambabu Sharma ◽  
Narendra Jangir
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Blood Culture ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Clinical Manifestation ◽  
Neonatal Sepsis ◽  
Burkholderia Cepacia ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Antibiotic Sensitivity

Background: Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Now a days, neonatal sepsis due to Burkholderia cepacia is on rise. This study was conducted to delineate clinical presentation and antibiotic sensitivity pattern from blood culture proven Burkholderia sepsis. Methods: In this retrospective analytical study, thirty-six neonates admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care hospital with blood culture proven Burkholderia sepsis were included. Clinical manifestation, laboratory findings and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of blood culture proven Burkholderia sepsis were analyzed.Results: : All neonates were inborn and were admitted within 24 hours of birth. Difficulty in breathing was most common presenting symptom and seizure was second in number. There was no association with mode of delivery. Male to female ratio is 1.4:1. Progressive thrombocytopenia was the most consistent feature and in 6 patients also associated with anaemia. Average hospital stay was increased and more in preterm neonates. In this setup piperacillin + tazobactem was found to be most sensitive against Burkholderia cepacia and cotrimoxazole was 2nd in sensitivity.Conclusions: Proper and timely identification of Non Fermentative Gram Negative Bacilli (NFGNB) other than Pseudomonas can help confine morbidity due to such infections. High degree of suspicion helps in early recognition. Efficient housekeeping is necessary to prevent nosocomial infections due to these pathogens.

scholarly journals Comparision of Clinical and Laboratory Parameters in Culture Proven and Unproven Early Onset Sepsis in NICU

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Shrestha ◽  
S Dhongol Singh ◽  
NC Shrestha ◽  
RPB Shrestha ◽  
SK Madhup
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Blood Culture ◽  
Laboratory Test ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Early Onset ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Early Onset Sepsis ◽  
Culture Positive

Backgroud Early onset sepsis remains a major cause for neonatal morbidity and mortality.Objectives The aim of this study was to describe and compare the clinical and laboratory characteristics of neonates in neonatal intensive care unit with culture positive and negative early onset sepsis and verify if there were any differences between the groups.Methods A one year comparative prospective study was conducted from January 2011 to January 2012 in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital (KUH).Results Out of 215 cases of suspected neonatal sepsis, 192 (89.30%) cases of early onset sepsis were admitted in neonatal intensive care unit. Out of which 82 cases (42.7%) had blood culture positive and 110( 57.3%) had culture negative but compatible with features of clinical sepsis. There were no cases of culture proven meningitis and urinary tract infections.The clinical characteristic did not show any statistical differences between the study groups except for seizure which was found to be high in culture positive cases (p= 0.041). The hospital stay in neonatal intensive care unit was significantly longer (p=0.02) in culture positive cases. As for the laboratory test there were no differences found between the two study groups except cases of meningitis was more in culture proven early onset sepsis (p=0.00). The overall mortality in early onset sepsis was 36.95%. The higher mortality of 64.7% was seen in culture positive cases but statistically not significant.Conclusion Clinical manifestation and laboratory test were insufficient to distinguish between neonatal infection with blood culture positive and negative sepsis, hence both culture positive and negative cases should be treated promptly and equally.Kathmandu Univ Med J 2013; 11(4): 310-314

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