Neonatal sepsis: clinical change outranks a score
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed0-year-old boy for clinical deterioration recognition, qualified sepsis-pathway boundary review, reassessment, and active-risk handoff practice. About 8 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Activate newborn infection, respiratory, circulatory, and family support.
- Connect maternal risk, clock, clinical change, physiology, and the whole dyad.
- Recognize clinically ill newborn sepsis risk without calculator, laboratory, or diagnosis closure.
- Review qualified culture, antimicrobial, support, investigation, and reassessment boundaries.
- Review the fixed 1-hour qualified-team report.
- Hand off respiratory, circulatory, neurologic, culture, family, and outcome risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Puopolo KM, Benitz WE, Zaoutis TE; AAP Committees on Fetus and Newborn and Infectious Diseases. Management of Neonates Born at 35 0/7 Weeks Gestation With Suspected or Proven Early-Onset Bacterial Sepsis. Pediatrics. 2018;142(6):e20182894.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment (NG195). 2021, current online recommendations.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.