Mortality from peripartum meningitis

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 328-330

  Choy, J C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b Department of Anaesthesia ^*  (Singapore)

Author keywords

Infection: meningitis; Obstetrics: meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOMETRITIS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABOR; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; VOMITING;

EID: 0034022140     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0002800316     Document Type: Article

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