Comparison of the management recommendations of the Kaiser Permanente neonatal early-onset sepsis risk calculator (SRC) with NICE guideline CG149 in infants ≥34 weeks’ gestation who developed early-onset sepsis
- 13 March 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal
- Vol. 105 (6), 581-586
- https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317165
Abstract
Objective To compare the management recommendations of the Kaiser Permanente neonatal early-onset sepsis risk calculator (SRC) with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline CG149 in infants ≥34 weeks’ gestation who developed early-onset sepsis (EOS). Design Retrospective multicentre study. Setting Five maternity services in South West of England and Wales. Patients 70 infants with EOS (Methods Retrospective virtual application of NICE and SRC through review of maternal and neonatal notes. Main outcome measure The number of infants recommended antibiotics by 4 hours of birth. Results The incidence of EOS ≥34 weeks was 0.5/1000 live births. Within 4 hours of birth, antibiotics were recommended for 39 infants (55.7%) with NICE, compared with 27 (38.6%) with SRC. The 12 infants advised early treatment by NICE but not SRC remained well, only one showing transient mild symptoms after 4 hours. Another four babies received antibiotics by 4 hours outside NICE and SRC guidance. The remaining 27 infants (38.6%) received antibiotics when symptomatic after 4 hours. Only one infant who was unwell from birth, died. Eighty-one per cent of all EOS infants were treated for clinical reasons rather than for risk factors alone. Conclusion While both tools were poor in identifying EOS within 4 hours, NICE was superior to SRC in identifying asymptomatic cases. Currently, four out of five EOS have symptoms at first identification, the majority of whom present within 24 hours of birth. Antibiotic stewardship programmes using SRC should include enhanced observation for infants currently treated within NICE guidance.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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