Antibiotics for Early Onset Sepsis in Newborn Infants |Biomedgrid

Excessive, uncontrolled use of antibiotic not only disrupt the neonatal microbiome but also lead to the development of antibiotic resistance [1]. Strict stewardship is therefore should be followed when caring for newborn with suspected early onset sepsis. In addition to the clinical assessment and laboratory analysis, we found the early onset sepsis (EOS) calculator, an online tool, extremely helpful [2]. Here we present the outline of three neonatal cases that highlights on the clinical utility of the EOS calculator.