Bacterial Meningitis Score for Children
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Result :
Bacterial Meningitis Score for Children : 0 Points
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Aseptic meningitis very likely
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Instructions
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Use in patients aged 29 days to 19 years with CSF WBC ≥10 cells/μL. Do not use if patient is critically ill, recently received antibiotics, has a VP shunt or recent neurosurgery, is immunosuppressed, or has other bacterial infection requiring antibiotics (including Lyme disease).
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References
- Nigrovic LE, Kuppermann N, Macias CG, et al. Clinical prediction rule for identifying children with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis at very low risk of bacterial meningitis. JAMA. 2007;297(1):52-60.
- Nigrovic LE, Kuppermann N, Malley R. Development and validation of a multivariate predictive model to distinguish bacterial from aseptic meningitis in children in the post-haemophilus influenza era. Pediatrics. 2002; 110: 712-9.
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