ReviewArchives of disease in childhood2003
Treatment of meningococcal infection.
Review in Archives of disease in childhood, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Invasive Meningococcal Disease in the Vaccine Era.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2018Review
- Mild meningococcaemia, pyrexia protocols and a problematic public health response.BMJ case reports · 2014Article
- Invasive meningococcal infection: analysis of 110 cases from a tertiary care centre in North East India.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2013Article
- Accuracy of the "traffic light" clinical decision rule for serious bacterial infections in young children with fever: a retrospective cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2013Article
- Persistently low plasma thioredoxin is associated with meningococcal septic shock in children.Intensive care medicine · 2007Article
- Meningitis is a common cause of convulsive status epilepticus with fever.Archives of disease in childhood · 2005Article
- Meningococcal vaccines.Paediatric drugs · 2004Review
- Pathophysiology of meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia.Archives of disease in childhood · 2003Review
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Abstract
Aggressive early treatment of meningococcal disease can reduce mortality. This relies on prompt recognition and treatment of the complications of septicaemia and meningitis, appropriate ongoing intensive care where necessary, and adequate management of multiple organ failure. Most children with meningococcal disease survive intact, but long term sequelae are increasingly recognised and make follow up essential. New treatments continue to be evaluated, but none has so far proven to be effective in further reducing morbidity or mortality. Simple, timely therapeutic manoeuvres may greatly improve the prospects for survival.
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