DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Sepsis
Neonatal sepsis
In common clinical usage, neonatal sepsis specifically refers to the presence of a bacterial blood stream infection (BSI) in the setting of fever. Criteria with regards to hemodynamic compromise or respiratory failure are not useful clinically because these symptoms often do not arise in neonates until death is imminent and unpreventable. It is difficult to clinically exclude sepsis in newborns less than 90 days old that have fever (defined as a temperature > 38°C . Except in the case of obvious acute viral bronchiolitis, the current practice in newborns less than 30 days old is to perform a complete workup including complete blood count with differential, blood culture, urinalysis, urine culture, and cerebrospinal fluid studies and CSF culture, admit the newborn to the hospital, and treat empirically for serious bacterial infection for at least 48 hours until cultures are demonstrated to show no growth...
Sepsis - List of case studies
- Respiratory Insufficiency with Tracheotomy_2
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female recovered from protracted bronchopneumonia and sepsis that demanded mechanical ventilation via oral intubation and ... the 4 limbs ), protracted bronchopneumonia, sepsis, upper-tracheal stenosis, supra stomal stenosis. Examinations ...
- Secondary Malignancy in mesentery following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic polyps
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He had a stormy postoperative course with E. coli sepsis and mild renal failure (Cr 1.67 mg/dL). He received several antibiotics ...
- Possible Anorexia, Vomiting, Failure to Gain Weight and Linear Growth Retardation
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. She had 2 possible infection episodes one was a sepsis workup at day 1 of life and the other at day 11. Mother received ... short stature, apnea, bradycardia, infection episodes, sepsis, IUGR, poor feeding, failure to gain weight, linear growth retardation, ...
- 1st and 2nd Motor Neuron Disease of ALS-type
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Intraoral sepsis - ... Disontogenesis (9th bilateral upper molar), Intraoral sepsis, Oral candidiasis, Reactive depressive syndrome, gliotic processes, ... Disontogenesis (9th bilateral upper molar), Intraoral sepsis, Oral candidiasis, Reactive depressive syndrome, gliotic processes, ...
- Feeding problems, vomiting and short stature in prematurely born child
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. She had 2 possible infection episodes one was a sepsis workup at day 1 of life and the other at day 11. Mother received 2 ... X ray, bone age, sweat test, Apgar, head ultrasound, sepsis workup, head circumference, absolute numbers of neutrophils, lymphocyte ...