Bacterial Meningitis : Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatments & Pathology

What is Meningitis? Well, Bacterial Meningitis is a True Medical Emergency that requires an urgent Lumbar Puncture for the diagnosis. This real life clinical case is about a young female patient in her thirties who presented with symptoms of Fever, headache, & Confusion. Streptococcus Pneumoniae was our first differential diagnosis, but later she was found to have Meningococcal Meningitis (Neisseria Meningitidis).

Chapters.
00:00 Clinical Diagnosis
00:40 Importance of CSF
01:10 Brain Herniation Risk
01:54 Lumbar Puncture
02:20 Antibiotics treatment
02:52 CSF analysis
03:26 Gram Stain Analysis
04:03 CSF culture Analysis

The topics discussed in this animation are.
1. Presentation of Bacterial Meningitis with symptoms.
2. Important Clinical Signs such as Neck rigidity/stiffness & Photophobia.
3. How to decide if the patients needs a Brain CT scan before the Lumbar puncture.
4. Performing a Lumbar Puncture (LP)
5. Analyzing a Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) report.
7. Utilization of Gram Stain to Identify the Causative Bacteria (Neisseria Meningitides vs Streptococcus Pneumoniae)
8. Empirical and targeted antibiotics therapy for Bacterial Meningitis. (Vancomycin & Ceftriaxone)
9. The rationale of giving Steroids (dexamethasone) before the administration of antibiotics.

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