title: Pediatric Practice Infectious Diseases
author: Samir Shah
description: <b>Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE,</b> is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and of General Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
zlib_text: NATIONAL GUIDELINES
  MANAGEMENT OF
  CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
  INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN
  
  GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CNS INFECTIONS
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  CLINICAL GUIDELINES ON
  CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
  GUIDELINES ON MENINGITIS
  Introduction
  These guidelines are aimed at achieving the best possible paediatric care for
  children with CNS infection within Sri Lanka. It should be utilized together with
  the clinical input and discretion of the managing paediatrician. Each patient
  should be individually evaluated and a decision made as to appropriate
  management in order to achieve the best clinical outcome. In the interests of
  patient care it is critical that contemporaneous, accurate and complete
  documentation is maintained during the course of patient management from
  arrival to discharge. Parental anxiety should not be discounted: it is often of
  significance even if the child does not appear especially unwell.
  Suspected bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency. If untreated it is invariably
  fatal. Eve