Interpretation of Blood Culture Results in Defining Sepsis in Term or Preterm Neonates (Type I and Type II Errors) 1 Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt ...

Sepsis is a common and devastating problem in the NICU. Diagnostic and clinical interventional trials focused on neonatal sepsis are significantly hampered by use of a widely diverse definition ...

Until now, it has been based on the characterisation of the bacterial infection as sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock, on the development of organ failure/s, and/or on CTP and MELD scores. Moving ...

Hypocholesterolemia involves having cholesterol levels that are too low. It cause health complications such as cardiovascular ...

Granulocyte Concentrate reduces mortality and benefits neutropenic children with severe infections suggests a study published ...

Viral infections like COVID-19 can trigger systemic inflammation and may lead to high levels of a chemical called cytokines. This is also known as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) or a "cytokine storm.

Post-sepsis syndrome refers to the continuing display ... Engineering and Medicine (Nasem) 2024 definition presented a core description, a list of characteristic symptoms and associated ...

"We did not want to risk confusing medical providers by changing the definition," he said. But that language was written at a ...