Before diagnosing neonatal sepsis, doctors have to look at the risk factors for infection from the mother. Dr. Majd M. Dardas, Neonatal Perinatal Physician with Center for Women and Infants at South Miami Hospital, explains the tests they use to know if the baby has neonatal sepsis, such as blood culture, complete blood count, and…...

Neonatal sepsis is an infection that babies get from their mothers. Dr. Majd M. Dardas, Neonatal Perinatal Physician with Center for Women and Infants at South Miami Hospital, explains what vertical transmissions are, and how contaminated amniotic fluid gets to the baby and causes infection. So dr. Dardis how do we see this happen…...

Sepsis is an infection that can damage organs causing them to fail and it has been the leading cause of death in hospitals. Carlos Torres-Viera, Infectious Disease Physician with West Kendall Baptist Hospital, explains any infectious diseases can lead to sepsis. It means the infection is so severe that the blood pressure drops and the…...

The American Cancer Society says the younger you start smoking, the more addicted you become. Rodney Benjamin, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician at South Miami Hospital, believes younger people are more vulnerable, because they don´t have any sense of their mortality. He points out it is a scary age for dangerous behavior and…...

According to Dr. John Eustace, Medical Director of Care & Counseling at Baptist Health South Florida, people are now into the opiate era. Substances such as hallucinogens or cannabis have been around forever and they´re going to be around forever, since history began, he says. Alcohol and tobacco, too. The specialist affirms the important thing…...

Dr. Veronica Palmero-Gonzalez, Pulmonologist with South Miami Hospital, explains nicotine is highly addictive. "If patients are already smoking, they have a hard time quitting. There's also a lot of pressure and advertisement in society that make people start smoking, which is one of the goals that we try, as physicians, to prevent." Women's risk…...

The 5 A's of Smoking Cessation are asking, advising, assessing, assisting, and arranging. "Number one is asking the patient whether the patient smokes or it has smoked in the past and getting details will be important", explains Dr. Veronica Palmero-Gonzalez, Pulmonologist with South Miami Hospital. The following is advising the patient to quit smoking as…...

E-cigarettes could be seen as a step to start quitting smoking, but Michael Hernandez, Critical Care & Pulmonary Medicine Physician, at South Miami Hospital, says there are no conclusive studies that to reduce the use of conventional cigarettes might help the use of electronic ones. "In regards to cessation, it doesn't quite succeed patients who…...