Lumbar drainage for the treatment of severe bacterial meningitis

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 199-205

  Abulhasan, Yasser B ^a,b   Al Jehani, Hosam ^a,c   Valiquette, Marie Anne ^a   McManus, Anne ^a   Dolan Cake, Mylène ^a   Ayoub, Omar ^a,d   Angle, Mark ^a   Teitelbaum, Jeanne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING ABDUL AZIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid drainage; Cohort study; Intracranial hypertension; Lumbar drain; Meningitis; Severe bacterial meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALLOPATHY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACILLACEAE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMBAR DRAINAGE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEEDLE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; URINE CULTURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885177144     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-013-9853-y     Document Type: Article

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