Nosocomial Infection — A Hazard of Newborn Intensive Care

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Advances in infant life-support technology and a better understanding of neonatal physiology have permitted the survival of critically ill newborns who would have died a few years ago. As a result, there has been a justifiably rapid proliferation of regional intensive-care units. In this issue of the Journal, Hemming, Overall and Britt focus on an unwanted by-product of modern neonatal intensive care: nosocomial infection. During a four-year period, nosocomial infection developed in 15.3 per cent of infants hospitalized for more than 48 hours in the University of Utah Medical Center newborn intensive-care unit. Many infants had minor infections, but . . .

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