[Significance of meningitis as a complication of spinal anesthesia].
A case is reported where the patient developed severe bacterial meningitis only hours after surgery. As a general anaesthetic was administered, no causal relationship could be found; spinal anaesthesia had originally been planned.
D000328:Adult; D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation; D000775:Anesthesia, Spinal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010329:Patella / Q000293:injuries*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011542:Pseudarthrosis / Q000601:surgery*
Zur Bedeutung der Meningitis als Komplikation der Spinalanaesthesie.