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Preoperative Staphylococcus aureus Carriage and Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Cardiac Surgery in Children Younger than 1 year: A Pilot Cohort Study
Surgical site infections (SSI) increase length of stay, morbidity, mortality and cost of hospitalization. Staphylococcus aureus (SA) carriage is a known risk factor of SSI in adults, but its role in pediatrics re...
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Open AccessValidation of the PECARN clinical decision rule for children with minor head trauma: a French multicenter prospective study
To date, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying children who are at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries after minor head trauma has not b...
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A new procalcitonin cord-based algorithm in early-onset neonatal infection: for a change of paradigm
Diagnostic of early-onset neonatal infection (EONI) remains an emergency. Recent studies underline the potential benefit of using Procalcitonin (PCT) in early diagnosis of bacterial infections in neonates. The...
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Healthcare-associated infection prevention in pediatric intensive care units: a review
The objective of this review was to summarize the current knowledge base on the prevention of nosocomial infections in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a cruc...
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Umbilical cord blood procalcitonin as a risk factor for mortality in very premature infants
Fetal inflammatory response syndrome is implicated as a cause of fetal or neonatal injury. We analyzed the relationship between the procalcitonin umbilical cord blood level and neonatal outcome. A total of 237...
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Umbilical cord blood procalcitonin level in early neonatal infections: a 4-year university hospital cohort study
This article describes a study of procalcitonin (PCT) measured in cord blood as a discriminating marker of early-onset neonatal infection. This was a monocenter retrospective study with prospective collection ...
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Almond oil implicated in a Staphylococcus capitis outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit
To develop an effective outbreak-control strategy by identifying the source and modes of transmission of Staphylococcus capitis in a 60-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
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Currarino syndrome as an etiology of a neonatal Escherichia coli meningitis
We report the case of a 29-day-old baby girl in whom Escherichia coli meningitis led to the diagnosis of Currarino syndrome (CS) (OMIM 176450), an autosomal-dominant genetic disorder associated with sacral agenes...