Risk Factors of Sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Unites

Abstract

Neonatal sepsis is the presence of microorganisms or their toxins in the blood or other tissue, neonatal bacterial infection is classified into two patterns according to time of occurrence. Early-onset sepsis usually manifests within 24 to 48 hours of birth, more progress and carries a mortality rates high as 50% within 24 hours of birth. The baby gets the infection from the mother before or during delivery. Late-onset neonatal sepsis occurring at 7 to 28 days of age, infection is acquired in the hospital or community after delivery (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2014). Sepsis is still one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in neonates, More than 40% of deaths globally occurs in the neonatal period, in South Africa, Asia and Latin America, neonatal mortality ranges from 68 to 110 per 1000 live births, sepsis reported rates in the neonatal intensive care units vary from 30 to 32 per 100live birth admissions (World Health Organization (WHO), 2017).