Meningitis
Most cases of childhood meningitis are caused by an enterovirus. Bacterial meningitis is less common, with 90% of cases occurring in children less than 5 years of age. Bacterial meningitis has a mortality rate of 20% in infants and 2% in children; neurologic sequalae occur in approximately one-third of children who survive their infection. Early diagnosis and treatment of bacterial meningitis is associated with better outcomes. Viral meningitis is a diagnosis of exclusion.
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Bottom Line Recommendations: Meningitis (2023)
Bottom Line Recommendations: Meningitis (2023)
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Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Bottom line recommendations for the treatment and management of Meningitis.
Evidence Repository: Meningitis (2021)
Evidence Repository: Meningitis
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Dr. Shannon MacPhee and Dr. Jeanette Comeau
Dr. Shannon MacPhee and Dr. Jeanette Comeau
Evidence repositories are collections of best available resources and evidence (clinical guidelines, peer reviewed literature, systematic reviews, etc.), collated by our knowledge synthesis team and content advisors. This evidence repository is not intended to be an exhaustive list of resources for a topic, but rather a curated list of current, evidence-based resources, based on expert consensus of relevance and usability for a general emergency department setting. We search databases (Cochrane Library, PubMed, TRIP Database) and web search engines (Google, Google Scholar) to locate evidence. Additionally, hospital websites are browsed for guidance documents, such as clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for healthcare professionals.
Every effort is made to identify resources that are open access (i.e. publicly available, free of charge, not requiring a subscription).
More information about the creation of our evidence repositories can be found at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28537762/
Recommandations de base: Méningite (2023)
Recommandations de base: Méningite (2023)
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Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Bottom Line Recommendations: Meningitis (2023)
Bottom Line Recommendations: Meningitis (2023)
- Download
Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Bottom line recommendations for the treatment and management of Meningitis.
Recommandations de base: Méningite (2023)
Recommandations de base: Méningite (2023)
- Download
Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Drs. Shannon MacPhee and Christian Renaud
Evidence Repository: Meningitis (2021)
Evidence Repository: Meningitis
- Download
Dr. Shannon MacPhee and Dr. Jeanette Comeau
Dr. Shannon MacPhee and Dr. Jeanette Comeau
Evidence repositories are collections of best available resources and evidence (clinical guidelines, peer reviewed literature, systematic reviews, etc.), collated by our knowledge synthesis team and content advisors. This evidence repository is not intended to be an exhaustive list of resources for a topic, but rather a curated list of current, evidence-based resources, based on expert consensus of relevance and usability for a general emergency department setting. We search databases (Cochrane Library, PubMed, TRIP Database) and web search engines (Google, Google Scholar) to locate evidence. Additionally, hospital websites are browsed for guidance documents, such as clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for healthcare professionals.
Every effort is made to identify resources that are open access (i.e. publicly available, free of charge, not requiring a subscription).
More information about the creation of our evidence repositories can be found at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28537762/
