Meningitis Medically Induced Coma

Acute Bacterial Meningitis - Merck Manuals Consumer Version

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Meningitis may cause coma and death within hours. Bacterial meningitis is one of the few disorders in which a previously healthy young person may go to sleep with mild symptoms and never awaken. In older children and adults, such a rapid death often results from …

Coma - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

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Outcome in patients with bacterial meningitis …

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In patients with meningitis with predominant signs of septic shock, meningitis may be missed because the typical sign of …

Meningitis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

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Amoebic meningitis is a rare type that is sometimes contracted through swimming in fresh water and can quickly become life-threatening. The main parasites that cause meningitis typically infect …

(PDF) Understanding coma in bacterial meningitis

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Non-viral infectious causes include bacterial meningitis with secondary encephalitic features [11], and other pathogens which should …

What Is a Medically Induced Coma and Why Is It Used?

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What is a medically induced coma? So basically what happens with a medically induced coma is that you take a drug and administer it until you see a certain pattern in the monitor that follows...

My Dad in a Coma in ICU.: He is 66 y/o fit... - Meningitis Now

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I had bacterial meningitis and septicaemia in 2008,at the age of 42yrs and like strawberry cream and your Dad was in a coma.The coma is often medically …

Medically Induced Coma: What Is It and Why Is It …

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Reasons for medically induced coma include: traumatic brain injury accompanied by swelling and increase in intracranial pressure stroke status epilepticus, which is a seizure lasting longer …

Coma and viral meningitis: Hi all My mum... - Meningitis Now

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My mum has been diagnosed with viral meningoencephalitis. She was admitted in hospital on 20 December after repeating seizures during the previous night. …

Coby’s meningitis story | Meningitis Now

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meningococcal Fourteen-month-old Coby Knighton’s chance of survival was 50:50 as he spent six days in an induced coma. His grandmother Katrina Claydon, recalls the horrifying moment when Coby was diagnosed with …