Acute Meningoccaemia Flashcards
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What is Acute Meningoccaemia?
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- Sepsis: a serious communicable infection transmitted via respiratory secretions - bacteria get into the circulating blood
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What is the organism responsible for Sepsis?
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- Gram Negative Neisseria Meningitides
3
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What are the features of Meningitis?
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- Fever, Headache, Photophobia
- Hypotension, Fever, Myalgia
- Non-blanching purpuric rash on the trunk and extremities
- Progress to ecchymoses, Haemorrhagic bullae and tissue necrosis
4
Q
What is the Managment?
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- IV benzylpenicillin
5
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What are the complications of Acute Meningoccaemia?
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- Septicaemic shock, DIC, Multi-organ failure and death
