Review: Diagnosis and Treatment of Central Nervous System Infections in the Emergency Department
Review: Diagnosis and Treatment of Central Nervous System Infections in the Emergency Department
Visit VisitObjective: This review discusses the clinical signs and symptoms that should lead emergency physicians to consider CNS infection, paying particular attention to the sensitivity and specificity of different clinical findings at the bedside. Subsequently, the diagnostic workup and management of patients for whom there is high clinical suspicion for CNS infection is discussed.
