Factors associated with posttraumatic meningitis among traumatic head injury patients: a nationwide study in Japan.
Yusuke KatayamaTetsuhisa KitamuraKosuke KiyoharaJunya SadoTomoya HiroseTasuku MatsuyamaTakeyuki KiguchiJotaro TachinoShunichiro NakaoYutaka UmemuraYuko NakagawaTakeshi ShimazuPublished in: European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society (2019)
In this population of trauma patients, burr hole surgery in the emergency department and decompressive craniectomy was associated with posttraumatic meningitis.
Keyphrases
- emergency department
- trauma patients
- end stage renal disease
- traumatic brain injury
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- minimally invasive
- cerebrospinal fluid
- peritoneal dialysis
- severe traumatic brain injury
- prognostic factors
- coronary artery bypass
- acute coronary syndrome
- adverse drug
- surgical site infection