Meningitis

Prevalence Causes Clinical features Differential Diagnosis Investigations Therapy Prevention Prognosis

Prevention There is no clear benefit from prophylactic antibiotics for base of skull fractures. d Why? Patients with basilar skull fractures who receive prophylactic antibiotics compared with those who do not, are not clearly less likely to develop meningitis d .

Expiry date: January 2003
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Authors	RS   Phillips , C   Ball
Reviewer	B   Davis
CAT Writers	C   Ball , RS   Phillips , C   Wotton