The HeRO score: Enhancing prognosis and predicting nosocomial infections in newborns: Insights from the neonatal intensive care unit.

Background: Nosocomial infections pose a significant health risk to neonates, and traditional biomarkers used for diagnosis often fall short in predicting such infections. In this study, we evaluate the efficacy of the HeRO (Heart Rate Observation score), a novel predictive tool for late-onset neonatal sepsis, in improving neonatal prognosis and reducing morbidity and mortality rates.

Methods: A prospective study was conducted from September 2020 to May 2021, reviewing patient evaluation for all neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit during this period after the implementation of the HeRO score.

[Neonatal leukemia and Blueberry Muffin Baby Syndrome: About a case of trisomy 21].

Acute leukemias are rare disease in the neonatal period. They occur preferentially in newborns with trisomy 21. They often manifest as hepatosplenomegaly, extra-hematopoietic involvement and hyperleukocytosis.

Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Isolated from Blood Culture Samples in a Moroccan Tertiary Hospital: True Bacteremia or Contamination?

Purpose: To demonstrate the relevance of clinico-biological correlation in the interpretation of positive blood cultures (BC) for multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, among adult and pediatric patients, in order to distinguish between true bacteremia (TB) and contaminations and to evaluate the impact on patient management.

Patients And Methods: This six-month study was conducted at Mohammed VI University Hospital in Marrakech. All MDR bacteria isolated from BCs carried out on hospitalized patients during this period were included.

Pulse Oximetry and Congenital Heart Disease Screening: Results of the First Pilot Study in Morocco.

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital malformation. Diagnosis of critical congenital heart disease (CCHD), the most severe type of congenital heart disease, in a newborn may be difficult. The addition of CCHD screening, using pulse oximetry, to clinical assessment significantly improves the rate of detection.

Management of Severe COVID-19 in Pregnancy.

The scarcity of data concerning pregnant patients gravely infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) makes their management difficult, as most of the reported cases in the literature present mild pneumonia symptoms. The core problem is laying out evidence on coronavirus's implications on pregnancy and delivery, as well as vertical transmission and neonatal mortality. A healthy 30-year-old pregnant woman, gravida 6, para 4, at 31 weeks of gestation, presented severe pneumonia symptoms promptly complicated with premature rupture of membranes (PROM).

An Outbreak of in a Moroccan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

() is an microorganism that is widespread in the environment, which may be the source of nosocomial infections, rare in the newborn but severe, and often in the form of outbreaks. The aim of our study is to report our experience, during an outbreak of , to show the severity of this germ, with review of the literature. Our study was retrospective, including 8 newborns with nosocomial infection, collected in the neonatal intensive care unit of Mohammed VI University Medical Hospital, during the epidemic period, over a period of 2 months (July and August 2016).

Therapeutic Hypothermia in Asphyxiated Neonates: Experience from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of University Hospital of Marrakech.

Introduction: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is now recommended for the treatment neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). This treatment protocol is applied in our department since June 2012. The aim of this study is to report the first experience with head cooling in asphyxiated neonates in Morocco.