Management of acute meningitis
Acute meningitis remains a devastating disease. Clinicians need a low threshold for suspecting meningitis, to undertake appropriate investigations and provide treatment in a timely manner, to minimise the risk of poor outcome in bacterial disease, while limiting unnecessary treatment in viral mening...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical medicine (London, England) England), 2018-04, Vol.18 (2), p.164-169 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Acute meningitis remains a devastating disease. Clinicians need a low threshold for suspecting meningitis, to undertake appropriate investigations and provide treatment in a timely manner, to minimise the risk of poor outcome in bacterial disease, while limiting unnecessary treatment in viral meningitis. |
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ISSN: | 1470-2118 1473-4893 |
DOI: | 10.7861/clinmedicine.18-2-164 |