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Describe Meningitis
Causes |
inflammation of the arachnoid and pia
causes: blood trauma basilar skull, abscess, middle ear infection, sinus |
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Classic signs and symptoms
other symptoms... |
headache, fever, stiff neck
photophobia, decrease LOC N&V |
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Kernig's sign
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pain in hamstring when you straighten the leg
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Brudzinski
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involuntary flexion of the hip when you flex the neck
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what can infants get when they have meningitis
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petechial rash looks like rugburn
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Bacterial Meningitis
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most common
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Strept pneumonia gram pos
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#1 cause of children R/t ear infection
bad thing for elderly-DIE if you have no spleen will get this-DIE Rocephin/Vanco |
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Neisseria Gram neg
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droplet formation
spitting, college, military, high population Pen G or rocephin |
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Listeria gram pos bacilli
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uncooked balogna, hotdog, foods not cooked in high enough temp
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Hemophilius Influenza
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HIV, get booster by 12 months
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Mycobacterium
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TB patient, at risk of outbreak
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Spinal Tap
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White means viral
should be clear |
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Viral meningitis
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from house flies, mosquitoes, and stool
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Aspetic Meningitis
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mumps, chicken pox, measles, massive fast HA, spinal tap clear, no temp usually
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Fungal Meningitis
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AIDS
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Parasitic Meningits
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worms, amoebas, lettuce
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Assessments for Meningitis
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Kernigs
Brudizinskis IICP SIADH septic emboli (traveling emboli) Labs (spinal tap, CBC, coag profile) Neuro (assess CN III, IV, VI, VII, VIII) |
