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Use of procalcitonin in neonatal late-onset sepsis may reduce the duration of antibiotic therapy without increase in mortality

Incorporating procalcitonin-guided decision making in the management of neonatal late-onset sepsis significantly reduced the ...
News-Medical.Net

Researchers find flaw in AI models for sepsis treatment

AI is already boosting positive outcomes in healthcare and holds promise for delivering many more. It is important, however, ...
News Medical

Researchers identify 4-gene signature to predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms

Sepsis leads to life-threatening organ failure due to dysregulated host responses to infection and presents uniquely across age groups. Neonatal sepsis, affecting infants in their first 28 days, ...
MedPage Today

In Neonatal Sepsis, When are Empiric Antibiotics Appropriate?

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...
Scientific American

Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent

Hospital patients are at risk of a number of life-threatening complications, especially sepsis—a condition that can kill within hours and contributes to one out of three in-hospital deaths in the U.S.
Medscape

Neonatal Sepsis Morbidity and Mortality High Across Rich and Poor Countries

LISBON, Portugal — A shift toward broader-spectrum antibiotics and increasing antibiotic resistance has led to high levels of mortality and neurodevelopmental impacts in surviving babies, according to ...
JD Supra

Unpacking Averages: Understanding the Potential for Bias in a Sepsis Prediction Algorithm, a Case Study

This may sound like an intimidating technical topic, but I’m going to keep it simple. I went to public schools, so I’m going to leave the complicated math to MIT graduates.[2] Before I dive into the ...