Methaq Ibrahim Abed

Pediatric Department of Maternity and Children Teaching Hospital, Babylon Health Directorate, Babil, Iraq

Publications

• Research   
  Neonatal Sepsis: Evaluation the Risk Factors, Pathogenic Agents and Outcome
  Author(s): Mohammed Mahdi khadim, Methaq Ibrahim Abed* and Nehad Kadhim Hashim
  
  Objective: To determine prospectively the etiology, risk factor and outcome of neonatal sepsis. Patients and methods: Prospective case study. Six hundred neonates were admitted to neonatal unit of children central hospital (Baghdad) between first of December 2018 to first of December 2019. Neonates with clinical findings reveal of sepsis like feeding intolerance; apnea; cyanotic spells or suggestive perinatal history of infection was included in this study. Neonatal sepsis was suspected in 214 neonates based on clinical finding; 120 neonates with sign and symptoms of sepsis were included in the research (after accepting those previous antibiotics treatment or severe asphyxia). Blood culture was done to determine pathogenic agents. Result: The causative agent was identified by blood culture in 23 cases (19.1.. Read More»
  

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