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Osmotic therapies added to antibiotics for acute bacterial meningitis

BACKGROUND: Every day children and adults die from acute community‐acquired bacterial meningitis, particularly in low‐income countries, and survivors risk deafness, epilepsy and neurological disabilities. Osmotic therapies may attract extra‐vascular fluid and reduce cerebral oedema, and thus reduce...

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Autores principales: Wall, Emma CB, Ajdukiewicz, Katherine MB, Bergman, Hanna, Heyderman, Robert S, Garner, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5815491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29405037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD008806.pub3