Clinical decision rules for acute bacterial meningitis: Current insights

Open Access Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 7-16

  Viallon, Alain ^a   Botelho Nevers, Elisabeth ^a   Zeni, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Emergency; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HEPARIN BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTIC ACID; PROCALCITONIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLOGY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 84964409159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OAEM.S69975     Document Type: Review

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