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Bacterial Meningitis Symptoms Diagnosis Treatments amp Pathology
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What is Meningitis? Well, Bacterial Meningitis is a True Medical Emergency that requires an urgent Lumbar Puncture for the diagnosis. This real life clinical case is about a young female patient in her thirties who presented with symptoms of Fever, headache, Confusion. Streptococcus Pneumoniae was our first differential diagnosis, but later she was found to have Meningococcal Meningitis (Neisseria Meningitidis). • Chapters. • 00:00 Clinical Diagnosis • 00:40 Importance of CSF • 01:10 Brain Herniation Risk • 01:54 Lumbar Puncture • 02:20 Antibiotics treatment • 02:52 CSF analysis • 03:26 Gram Stain Analysis • 04:03 CSF culture Analysis • The topics discussed in this animation are. • 1. Presentation of Bacterial Meningitis with symptoms. • 2. Important Clinical Signs such as Neck rigidity/stiffness Photophobia. • 3. How to decide if the patients needs a Brain CT scan before the Lumbar puncture. • 4. Performing a Lumbar Puncture (LP) • 5. Analyzing a Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) report. • 7. Utilization of Gram Stain to Identify the Causative Bacteria (Neisseria Meningitides vs Streptococcus Pneumoniae) • 8. Empirical and targeted antibiotics therapy for Bacterial Meningitis. (Vancomycin Ceftriaxone) • 9. The rationale of giving Steroids (dexamethasone) before the administration of antibiotics. • SUPPORT MY WORK ► / tinymedicine570 • Thanks For Watching !. :) • Don`t Forget To SUBSCRIBE!
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