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Date Published: 22/06/2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v515i1.2686
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Vol. 515 No. 1 (2022)
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Mạnh Hùng, T. . (2022). ANTIBIOGRAM AND TREATMENT RESULTS OF MENINGITIS PATIENTS TREATED IN NATIONAL HOSPITAL OF TROPICAL DISEASE. Vietnam Medical Journal, 515(1). https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v515i1.2686

ANTIBIOGRAM AND TREATMENT RESULTS OF MENINGITIS PATIENTS TREATED IN NATIONAL HOSPITAL OF TROPICAL DISEASE

Thân Mạnh Hùng1,2,
1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
2 National Hospital for Tropical Diseases

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Abstract

Objective: Describe the results of antibiogram and evaluate the treatment results of patients with meningitistreated in the emergency department - National hospital for tropical diseases. Subjects and methods: 42 patients were diagnosed with bacterial meningitis by methods: staining Gram, bacterial culture and polymerase chain, treated in the emergency department of national hospital for tropical diseases from 1/2013 to 12/2014. Descriptive and retrospective cross-sectional study. Results: Antibiogram: the causative agent is sensitive to ceftriaxone 83.9%, sensitive to ampicillin 93.5%, sensitive to meropnem 100%, sensitive to penicillin 96.6%, sensitive to cefepime 96, 4%. Treatment results: the mortality rate in patients with meningitis is 7.1%. Mean length of hospital stay was 19.11 days. The number of patients requiring mechanical ventilation accounted for 16.7%.

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meningitis, cerebrospinal fluid

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