Acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults admitted to the intensive care unit: clinical manifestations, management and prognostic factors
- 6 August 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Intensive Care Medicine
- Vol. 29 (11) , 1967-1973
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-003-1935-4
Abstract
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).Keywords
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