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
Hauptverfasser: Griffiths, Michael J, McGill, Fiona, Solomon, Tom
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Sprache:eng
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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.
ISSN:1470-2118
1473-4893
DOI:10.7861/clinmedicine.18-2-164