#263 - 🟢 [HOT TOPICS 2024] - Rethinking Neonatal Sepsis and Antibiotic Stewardship
The Incubator Channel · 9 Dec 2024 · 11 min
Summary
A podcast-style interview from The Incubator with Dr Martin Stocker on the difficulties of diagnosing neonatal sepsis and the overuse of antibiotics in newborns. It covers balancing sepsis risk against the long-term harms of antibiotics, the roles of clinical signs, risk factors and biomarkers such as IL-6, and decision-making algorithms.
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