Induced hypothermia in adult community-acquired bacterial meningitis - more than just a possibility?

Journal of Infection

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 172-177

  Lepur, Dragan ^a   Kutleša, Marko ^a   Baršić, Bruno ^a  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adult; Bacterial meningitis; Community acquired; Hypothermia; S. pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTINUOUS HEMOFILTRATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MYELITIS; NERVE SHEATH; OPTIC NERVE; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79551611136     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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