Cytokine screening identifies NICU patients with Gram-negative bacteremia

Biomarkers and physiomarkers may be useful adjunct tests for sepsis detection in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients. We studied whether measuring plasma cytokines at the time of suspected sepsis could identify patients with bacteremia in centers in which patients were undergoing continuous physiomarker screening using a heart rate characteristics (HRC) index monitor.Six cytokines were higher in Gram-negative bacteremia (GNB) than in...