Finding the Needle in the Haystack

Abstract

Challenges and Future Directions in Maternal Sepsis Recognition "When I look back upon the past, I can only dispel the sadness which falls upon me by gazing into that happy future when the infection [puerperal fever] will be banished." -Ignaz Semmelweiss (1818-1865), The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. 1 See related articles on pages 326, 336, and 346.