| Re: Prehospital parenteral penicillin for children with meningococcal disease -
03-06-2006, 02:45 PM
The purpose of this club is to make we doctors realise what the best practice is. Noone is more aware than myself who had worked with children in grim circumstances in Nepal for nearly seven years.
If we keep presuming that it won't make any difference to the practice in Nepal by whatever we put up here, I think we should put our pen down and keep praying for things to change for better.
As per Soul's short note on thrombolytic therapy which is also undoubtedly very important and life saving, I think giving im peniciliin which is more readily available can or should make lot of difference by making all health professionals aware of using it in suspected meningococcal cases. Anil Tuladhar MRCP(UK), FRCPCH
University Hospital of North Tees
Cleveland
UK |