| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Neonatal sepsis is a significant issue for newborns everywhere and causes
a large amount of morbidity and mortality. Various indicators of newborn sepsis are
expensive and occasionally unavailable in peripheral hospitals. The neutrophillymphocyte ratio (NLR), which is affordable, is a component of complete blood counts
and does not call for further testing. This study intended to investigate the neutrophil-tolymphocyte ratio (NLR) as a predictor of neonatal mortality rate in the local hospital in
rural locations.
Methods: This study sampled newborns with sepsis in the perinatal room of dr.
Soebandi Hospital Jember for this cross-sectional study, from January 2021 to June
2022. NLR is calculated by manually dividing the number of neutrophils by the actual
number of lymphocytes. Our neutrophil and lymphocyte data were obtained from the
patient's lab results. This study analyzed neonatal sepsis NLR data using Spearman
analysis to find the relation between NLR value and mortality rate of neonatal sepsis.
Results: This study obtained 43 data on neonatal sepsis in the perinatology ward during
this period. The data found to show that 37 neonatal sepsis survived and 6 died. The
collected data analysis found that the lowest NLR neonatal sepsis is 0.4, the highest NLR
neonatal sepsis is 25.6 and the mean value for NLR neonatal sepsis in perinatology was
3.88. This study found no correlation between the NLR value of the sepsis neonate and
the neonatal mortality rate Sig. (2-tailed) 0.662.
Conclusion: In this study demonstrated no correlation between the NLR value of the
sepsis neonates and the neonatal mortality rate | en_US |
