Friday, March 21, 2008

The treatment of neonatal meningitis

Treatment: Group B streptococcus meningitis treatment, With penicillin G recommended daily 500,000 u / kg or ammonia cards daily 300-400 mg penicillin / kg gentamicin plus daily 0.75 mg / kg. Gram-negative bacilli meningitis treatment more difficult, a typical drug card ammonia drug penicillin plus an aminoglycoside mortality of 20% -30%. Third-generation cephalosporins (such as ammonia thiadiazole cephalosporins) is the treatment of Gram-negative bacteria has been confirmed meningitis (or septicemia) or those affirmative sepsis drug of choice. Meningitis special clinical conditions also affect the choice of antibiotics, for example, within a week after birth and suspected sepsis ampicillin and gentamicin treatment for the newborn, and was born a few weeks after sepsis and meningitis, the use of vancomycin should be merged adriamycin and with different types of aminoglycoside the past (such as amikacin), or third-generation cephalosporins (such as ammonia thiadiazole cephalosporins).

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