Abstract：
:Healthcare-associated bacterial meningitis may occur after neurosurgical procedures, head trauma, and following placement of external or internal ventricular catheters. The likely microorganisms that cause meningitis in this setting (ie, staphylococci and gram-negative bacilli) are different from those that cause meningitis in the community setting. Any clinical suspicion of healthcare-associated bacterial meningitis should prompt a diagnostic evaluation (neuroimaging and cerebrospinal fluid analysis) and appropriate management. Empiric antimicrobial therapy should be directed toward the likely infecting pathogen; based upon clinical response, intraventricular administration of specific agents may be required. With the emergence of resistant gram-negative bacilli (especially Acinetobacter baumannii) that may cause healthcare-associated meningitis, empiric therapy with a carbapenem, with or without an aminoglycoside administered by the intraventricular or intrathecal route, is recommended; colistin (given intravenously and/or intraventricularly) can be used if the organism is subsequently found to be resistant to carbapenems.
journal_name
Curr Infect Dis Repjournal_title
Current infectious disease reportsauthors
Laxmi S,Tunkel ARdoi
10.1007/s11908-011-0190-zsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-08-01 00:00:00pages
367-73issue
4eissn
1523-3847issn
1534-3146journal_volume
13pub_type
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