Question 74 · LEK · Meningitis
Unconscious patients suspected of meningitis should be:
- A. subjected to lumbar puncture with CSF examination and then treated with antibiotics.
- B. examined with CT of the head, and with cerebral edema excluded lumbar puncture with CSF examination should be performed.
- C. immediately after obtaining the result of CT of the head empirically treated with antibiotics.
- D. subjected to lumbar puncture with CSF examination and if the result is inconclusive, CT of the head should be performed.
- E. treated with antibiotics before obtaining CSF for CSF culture.
Hint
In suspected bacterial meningitis every hour of delay worsens the outcome — consider which step must not wait for imaging or CSF.
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