Management of nosocomial external ventricular drain-related ventriculomeningitis

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-367

  Beer, Ronny ^a   Pfausler, Bettina ^a   Schmutzhard, Erich ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; External ventricular drainage; Nosocomial infections; Ventriculomeningitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; MEROPENEM; NIMODIPINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; IMMUNE STATUS; LABORATORY TEST; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANASTOMOSIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; ENCEPHALITIS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MIDDLE AGED;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CROSS INFECTION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 70349231426     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-008-9155-y     Document Type: Article

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