Table 8.

Maternal clinical and lab findings, mode of delivery, and neonatal outcome – Comparison to previous studies

Parameter	Present study N=415	Previous studies
Maternal tachycardia	60.5%	20-80 % (Newton et al. 1993 [1])
Fetal tachycardia	47.7%	40-70% (Newton et al.1993 [1])
White blood cells >15	45.3%	70-90 % (Newton et al. 1993 [1])
Positive blood culture for mother	12%	12% (Yoder et al. 1983 [6]) 5-10% (Duff P et al. 2012 [51])
Intrapartum antibiotics	≥ 2 hours before delivery- 56%	>3 hours: 32.2 % (Venkatesh et al. 2019 [47])
Cesarian Section	45.8%	31.3% (Soper et al. 1989 [44]) 36% (Yoder et al. 1983 [6]) 21% (Rikert et al. 1998 [45]) 41.9% (Venkatesh et al. 2019 [47])
Instrumental vaginal delivery	23.4%	4.7% (Venkatesh et al. 2019 [47])
Histologic chorioamnionitis	64.4%	7-85% (Holzman et al. 2007 [52]) 62% (Smullen et al. 1999 [53])
Positive amniotic fluid / placental culture	22.5%	46%- amniotic fluid culture (Romero et al. 2015 [54])
Mean newborn rectal temperature at birth	37.530C	Mean: 37.5 0C (Shalak et al. 2005 [55])
Any resuscitation at birth	6.7%	11.5% (Liebermann et al. 2000 [49])
Neonatal respiratory distress	20.7%%	20% (Yoder et al. 1983 [6]) 24.6% (Venkatesh et al. 2019 [47])
Need for mechanical ventilation	1.4%	0.89% (Venkatesh et al. 2019 [47]) 2.5 % (Rouse et al. 2004 [56])
Culture-proven neonatal sepsis	0.96%	8% (Yoder et al.1983 [6]) 1.3% (Rouse et al. 2004 [56]) 0.5% (Shalak et al. 2005 [55]) 0.3% (Sahni et al. 2019 [44]) 2.75% (Sayyed et al. 2020 [42])
Sepsis or pneumonia	Any sepsis or pneumonia – 8.2%	Culture positive sepsis /pneumonia 12 % (Yoder et al. 1983 [6]) Presumed sepsis or pneumonia – 14.6% (Venkatesh et al. 2019 [47])