Outbreak of chemical meningitis following spinal anesthesia caused by chemically related bupivacaine

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 922-924

  Dos Santos, Marcelo Cordeiro ^a,b,c   De Albuquerque, Bernardino Claudio ^c,d   Monte, Rossicléia Lins ^b   Filho, Gilberto Gama ^e   Das Graças Costa Alecrim, Maria ^a,b,f  

^a Amazonas State University   (Brazil)

^b Tropical Medicine Foundation of Amazonas   (Brazil)

^c Health Surveillance Foundation   (Brazil)

^d Universidade da Amazonia   (Brazil)

^e Santa Julia Hospital   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ATOPY; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHEMICAL MENINGITIS; DISORIENTATION; DRUG CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; NECK; RIGIDITY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRAZIL; BUPIVACAINE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349183466     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599358     Document Type: Letter

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