Bob, I have read it with care. I need your help to understand your point. I have never teased you, why are you teasing me? <g>
Bob, less than 50% of the 2,700 cases had meningococal sepsis, the majority just had meningitis. So the less than 10% death rate is not meaningful
Second this standard of care was for 1997, and does not include BPI.
"Although mortality rises to
50% in the most severely ill patients,4-6 data from our unit suggests that
early recognition,7 aggressive resuscitation, specialist advice, and transfer to
paediatric intensive care8 9 can reduce this mortality to less than 5%"
The comments on the importance of aggressive resuscitation and specialist as being more important than early treatment were interesting. Even though the report refers to the past I wondered if the comments were not influenced by something occurring now?
But in any event please help me, understand exactly what you mean. |
