作者
Juan M Flores-Cordero, Rosario Amaya-Villar, Maria D Rincón-Ferrari, Santiago R Leal-Noval, José Garnacho-Montero, Ana C Llanos-Rodríguez, Francisco Murillo-Cabezas
发表日期
2003/11
期刊
Intensive care medicine
卷号
29
页码范围
1967-1973
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
Objective
To study the clinical features, management and prognostic factors associated with adverse clinical outcome in a series of patients with acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
Design and setting
Descriptive, prospective study at two ICUs of a university hospital over a 6-year period.
Patients
Sixty-four episodes in 62 adults with acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis admitted to the ICU.
Results
Most of the patients (95.3%) were admitted to the ICU presenting with altered mental status (the median value of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was 11). Overall mortality rate was 10.9% (7 patients) and 11 (17.1%) developed adverse clinical outcome (death or severe neurologic deficit). The features associated with adverse clinical …
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