ReviewAmerican journal of infection control2005
Health care-associated infections in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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- Fluconazole prophylaxis in preterm infants: a systematic review.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious DiseasesPooled it
- Exclusively Pumping Women's Milk Production and Pumping and Feeding Dynamics-An Online Survey.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Trends and Interhospital Variability of NICU Bloodstream Infections in Korea.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Implementation of optimized kangaroo care for infection prevention and control in neonatal intensive care units (NeoIPC): Protocol for the implementation elements of a multicenter parallel cluster randomized hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness study.Implementation science : IS · 2026Article
- Development and internal validation of a nomogram for early prediction of hospital-acquired ESKAPE colonization or infection in very preterm infants using indicators available within 24 hours.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Assessing clinically relevant endemic environmental bacterial and viral contamination in neonatal intensive care areas.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2026Article
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- Prevalence and Incidence of Nosocomial Infections in a Single Tertiary-Level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Oman.Cureus · 2025Article
- Lessons From the Survival of an Extremely Preterm Neonate Despite Challenges in a Country Where Gestational Age of Viability Is 28 Weeks.Clinical case reports · 2025Article
- Molecular Characterization of Gram-Negative Bacilli Isolated from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Phenotypic and Molecular Detection of ESBL and Carbapenemase.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of pregnancy-induced hypertension on early-onset neonatal thrombocytopenia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Epidemiology and treatment of herpes simplex virus in the neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
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- Epidemiology, risk factors, and applicability of CDC definitions for healthcare-associated bloodstream infections at a level IV neonatal ICU.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023Article
- Assessment of neonatal intensive care unit nurses' compliance with standard precautions of infection control and identification of enabling factors.Future journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2023Article
- [Recent research on pharmacological prevention strategies for invasive fungal infection in preterm infants].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2022Review
- Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care.BMJ open quality · 2022Article
- Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Decreases Hospital Stay and Healthcare Cost in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Medicines (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Contaminated Incubators: Source of a Multispecies Enterobacter Outbreak of Neonatal Sepsis.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
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Abstract
Neonates represent a unique and highly vulnerable patient population. Advances in medical technology that have occurred over the last few decades have improved the survival and quality of life for neonates, particularly those infants born with extreme prematurity or with congenital defects. Although immunologic immaturity and altered cutaneous barriers play some role in the vulnerability of neonates to nosocomial infections, clearly, therapeutic interventions that have proven to be lifesaving for these fragile infants also appear to be associated with the majority of infectious complications resulting in neonatal morbidity and mortality. Rates of infections in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have varied from 6% to 40% of neonatal patients, with the highest rates in those facilities having larger proportions of very low-birth-weight infants (birthweight < or =1000 grams) or neonates requiring surgery. Efforts to protect the vulnerable NICU infants include the following: (1) optimal infection control practices, especially good hand hygiene and good nursery design; (2) prudent use of invasive interventions with particular attention to early removal of invasive devices after they are no longer essential; and (3) judicious use of antimicrobial agents, with an emphasis on targeted (narrow spectrum) rather than broad-spectrum antibiotics and appropriate indications (proven or suspected bacterial infections).
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