Etiologies, clinical presentation and hospital outcome of bacterial meningitis in children at the pediatric unit of the Yaounde -gyneco- obstetric and pediatric hospital

• ABSTRACT
  
• INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES:
  
• CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION:
  
• RESUME
  
• INTRODUCTION ET OBJECTIFS:
  
• CONCLUSION ET RECOMMANDATION:
  
  • 2. Heads of Departments
    
  • I.1) BACKGROUND
    
  • I.2) RATIONALE AND JUSTIFICATION
    
  • I.3 ) MAIN OBJECTIVES
    
  • I.6 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
    
• II.1) GENERAL OVERVIEW
  
• II.4.2) INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE
  
• II.4.3) RAISED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE
  
• II.4.4) NEURONAL DAMAGE
  
• II.5) DIAGNOSIS OF MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN
  
• II.5.1) CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN
  
• II.5.2.2) COMPLICATIONS OF LUMBAR PUNCTURE
  
• II.5.3) OTHER LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS
  
• II.5.3.1) IMAGING TECHNIQUES
  
• II.6) CURRENT TREATMENT ON BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN
  
• II.6.1) ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT
  
• II.6.2) ADJUVANT THERAPY AND SUPPORTIVE THERAPY
  
• II.6.3) FLUID RESTRICTION
  
• II.7 PREVENTION OF BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN II.7.1) VACCINATION
  
• II.7.2) CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS
  
• II.7) COMPLICATIONS OF BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN
  
• III.1) STUDY DESIGN
  
• III.3) STUDY SETTING
  
• III.4) SAMPLING
  
• III.5) STUDY POPULATION
  
• III.5.1) INCLUSION CRITERIA
  
• III.5.2) EXCLUSION CRITERIA
  
• III.7) MATERIALS
  
• III.8) METHODS
  
• III.8.2) PATIENT RECRUITMENT
  
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• III.8.3) DATA MANAGEMENT
  
• III.8.3.1) ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
  
• III.9 MANAGERIAL ASPECTS III.9.1) HUMAN RESOURCES
  
• IV.1) INCIDENCE
  
• IV.2) SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS
  
• IV.2.3) Type of admissions
  
• V.2.4) Distribution of patients according to year of admission
  
• IV.4) PARACLINICAL INVESTIGATION
  
• IV.5) ETIOLOGIES OF BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
  
• IV.6) HOSPITAL OUTCOME
  
• V.3) CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF PATIENTS
  
• V.4) PARACLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS
  
• V.5) HOSPITAL OUTCOME OF BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN
  
• CONCLUSION
  
  • A. IDENTIFICATION OF THE CHILD