%0 Journal Article
%T Infecci¨®n neonatal: comportamiento en una unidad de cuidados intensivos
%A Franco Argote
%A Osmany
%A Ali£¿o Santiago
%A Miriam
%J Revista Cubana de Pediatr£¿-a
%D 2010
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X introduction. the aim of present study was to characterize the newborns presenting with sepsis seen in the neonatal intensive services of the "america arias" gynecology and obstetrics hospital for 2 years. methods. a quantitative, observational, descriptive and retrospective research was carried out. universe included 214 neonates. study variables were: neonatal conditions, clinical sepsis manifestations, severity, humoral alterations and a history of intervention procedures. some variables were combined founding the p-value to comparison in neonates with non-severe or with severe sepsis. results. in study group the prematurity, low birth weight and retarded intrauterine growth achieved a 49.1%, 42,1% and 18,7%, respectively. the 72.9% of patients had severe sepsis. the commonest clinical manifestations were the tachypnea (69.2%) and a slow capillary filling (57.9%). the more frequent humoral alteration was the metabolic acidosis (63.6%) and the umbilical catheterization was the commonest intervention procedure (21.5%), metabolic acidosis and neutrophilia and respiratory assistance with umbilical catheterization (21 % or epicutaneous (20.6%). the p-value was of 0.001 among patients with non-severe sepsis and the patients with severe sepsis in all combinations of intervention and non-significant in the combination of low birth weight-retarded intrauterine growth (iurg). conclusions. there was predominance of prematurity, severe sepsis, tachypnea, umbilical catheterization and metabolic acidosis. the differences among the patients with non-severe sepsis and those with severe sepsis were significant in all the intervention combinations and of neonatal condition, but not in the combination of low birth weight-iurg.
%K neonatal sepsis
%K systemic inflammatory response syndrome
%K organ multiple dysfunction syndrome
%K severe sepsis
%K newborn.
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