Affiliation:
1. Department of Pediatrics, University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi, India
Abstract
Our study evaluated the role of micro-erythrocte sedimentation rate (micro-ESR) in the early detection of neonatal sepsis. Neonates with >34 completed weeks of gestation, appropriate for gestational age, admitted in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with clinical suspicion of early onset sepsis were enrolled in the study. A sepsis screen and blood culture was performed on all the babies within 4 h of admission. The sensitivity of micro-ESR for detecting positive blood culture was calculated and the best cut-off was determined using the Area Under Curve.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health