Parenteral penicillin before admission to hospital for meningitis

British Medical Journal

Volumn 332, Issue 7553, 2006, Pages 1283-1284

  Keeley, Duncan ^a  

^a Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFUSION FLUID; PENICILLIN G; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; INFUSION; NOTE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PENICILLINS;

EID: 33744979004     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7553.1283     Document Type: Editorial

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