title: [Epidemiological study of nosocomial meningitis in neurological patients].
abstract: We realized a retrospective study of all the patients who developed a nosocomial meningitis after to admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of our hospital, during the last five years. Nosocomial meningitis was found in 3.29% of the neurologic patients. The most frequent causes of the meningitis was the external ventricular drainage (14.8%), post-neurosurgical (0.8%) and head injury (0.0007%). The causative bacterias were stafilococo, S. pneumoniae, K. pneunomiae and P. aeruginosa. The mortality was of the 39.06%.
authors: Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Clinico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza.
authors: M I
authors: MI
authors: Ostabal
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Suárez Pinilla
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Sanz Sebastián
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Millastre
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015995:Prevalence
vernacular_title: Estudio epidemiólogico de la meningitis nosocomial en el enfermo neurológico.