Clinical management of meningococcal disease
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PERSONAL PRACTICE Emergency management of meningococcal disease
Neisseria meningitidis is the leading infectious cause of death in childhood in the UK. 2 There were over 2500 cases and 246 deaths in 1997 and the disease has an overall mortality of about 10%. 5 Although mortality rises to 50% in the most severely ill patients, data from our unit suggests that early recognition, aggressive resuscitation, specialist advice, and transfer to paediatric intensive...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7136.1015