Manejo de la Meningitis Bacteriana

Patients with bacterial meningitis are usually treated by primary care and emergency medicine physicians at the time of initial presentation, often in consultation with infectious diseases specialists, neurologists, and neurosurgeons. In contrast to many other infectious diseases, the anti microbial therapy for bacterial meningitis is not always based on randomized, prospective, double-blind clinical trials, but rather on data initially obtained from experimental animal models of infections.

Practice Guidelines for the Management of Bacterial Meningitis Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;39:1267-84