Society guideline links: Sepsis in neonates

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Urinary tract infections in children" and "Society guideline links: Pediatric pneumonia" and "Society guideline links: Febrile young infants (younger than 90 days of age)" and "Society guideline links: Group B streptococcal infection in pregnant women and neonates" and "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in infants and children".)

International

●Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC): International guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children (2020)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendations on newborn health (2017)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline for the prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease (reaffirmed 2018)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement for management of term infants at increased risk for early onset bacterial sepsis (2017)

United States

●Choosing Wisely: Do not start IV antibiotic therapy on well-appearing newborn infants with isolated risk factors for sepsis such as maternal chorioamnionitis, prolonged rupture of membranes, or untreated group-B streptococcal colonization. Use clinical tools such as an evidence-based sepsis risk calculator to guide management (2021)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on the prevention of group B streptococcal early-onset disease in newborns, interim update (2020)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Clinical report for the management of infants at risk for group B streptococcal disease (2019)

●AAP: Clinical report for the management of neonates born at ≤34 6/7 weeks' gestation with suspected or proven early-onset bacterial sepsis (2018)

●AAP: Clinical report for the management of neonates born at ≥35 0/7 weeks' gestation with suspected or proven early-onset bacterial sepsis (2018)

●American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM): Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock (2017)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on neonatal infection – Antibiotics for prevention and treatment (2021)

●NICE: Quality standard on sepsis (2017, updated 2020)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Green-top guideline for the prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease, third edition (2017)

●NICE: Quality standard on neonatal infection (2014)

Australia-New Zealand

●Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID): Management of perinatal infections (2014)