Culture-negative sepsis after pediatric cardiac surgery: Incidence and outcomes

• Main Authors: Rajesh M Gopalakrishnan (Author), Arjun Ramachandran Nair (Author), Abish Sudhakar (Author), Aveek Jayant (Author), Rakhi Balachandran (Author), Praveen Kumar Neema (Author), Raman Krishna Kumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background : Significant proportion of congenital heart surgery (CHS) children exhibit sepsis, but have negative blood culture and defined "culture negative sepsis (CNS)." Aims and Objectives : Retrospective analysis of CNS patients undergoing CHS. Material and Methods : 437 consecutive CH...