Signs and Symptoms of Neonatal Sepsis
The most common temperature irregularity?
What is hypothermia
Name the category level of sepsis with the greatest mortality?
What is severe or septic shock
The term for WBC less than 5000?
What is leucopenia
The huddle check list is kept?
What is the charge desk
When low suspicion for invasive infection is determined during the huddle what would the treatment include?
What is screening labs only
What cardiac arrhythmia is associated with sepsis
What is bradycardia
Early onset Sepsis begins?
What is in the first 72 hours of life
The presence of bands, myelocytes, and metamyelocytes is called?
What is the left shift
Who is the first person you would alert to request a bedside huddle?
Who is the charge nurse
Fluid resuscitation and pressors are treatments of what level sepsis?
What is severe sepsis or septic shock
A nursing assessment technique is used to detect perfusion abnormalities?
What is capillary refill
Sepsis beginning after 72 hours age is called?
what is late onset sepsis
ANC less than 1500 is called?
neutropeina
Where is the sepsis huddle documented?
A 1000gm neonate is in severe sepsis requiring rapid fluid resuscitation, what is the dose range of NS?
What is 10-20 mL/kg bolus
A change in incubator support from baseline may one of the indicators of ?
Transmission of pathogens from the mothers genitourinary system to the neonate is what category of sepsis?
What is early onset sepsis
I:T Ratio stands for?
What is Immature to total neurtophils
Risk factors, temperature, HR, organ dysfunction, changes in feeding tolerance and lab values are assessed during?
What is the sepsis huddle
When sepsis is suspected when should the antibiotics be administered?
What is within 60 minutes or ASAP
A common neurological term used to describe a neonate with sepsis?
What is lethargy or decreased tone
Pathogens common in late onset sepsis come from where?
what is the envoronment
The lab value that may differentiate bacterial from viral illness?
What is CRP
Where is the completed sepsis checklist kept?
What is the chartlet
Blood cultures, LP, CBC, and obtaining IV access are included in?
What is the initial workup