DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i02.047

Pages: 667-671

Background: Sepsis is a frequent and serious event which threatens survival during the neonatal period. The morbidity and mortality rate from neonatal sepsis continues to be high the world over inspite of the development of broad spectrum antibiotics and technological advances in life support therapy. Objectives: To find out the risk factors associated with neonatal sepsis and co-relate clinical sepsis with culture positive sepsis. Material and methods: Blood culture, sepsis screen, haematological & biochemical markers, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) study, radiology are included in present study. Results: In present study One fifty (65.2%) were culture positive and 80 (32%) were culture negative out of 230 clinically suspected studied cases. Out of which 80 were culture negative cases in which 36(45%) neonates found that two or more sepsis screen tests positive, 42(52.5%) culture negative babies were found to be with risk factors and 2(2.5%) had evidence of pneumonia radio logically. Conclusion: blood culture is the gold standard of sepsis. Although it is time consuming, empirical antibiotics are administered during this period.