Post Trauma Acinetobacter Baumanii Meningitis Treatment Approach.

Cem Erdoğan1, Zeynep Betul Balcioglu2, Isa Seida2

  • 1Departmant of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Summary

Acinetobacter baumannii meningitis, a severe nosocomial infection, can be successfully treated with intrathecal colistin and polymyxin B. This approach improves survival outcomes for drug-resistant infections, even when antibiotics struggle to cross the blood-brain barrier.

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