{"id":137,"date":"2020-06-05T00:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=137"},"modified":"2020-06-17T03:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:12:45","slug":"meningitis-and-encephalitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/meningitis-and-encephalitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meningitis and encephalitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Meningitis_encephalitis\/\">Meningitis and encephalitis<\/a> was an existing Victorian Statewide CPG that has been revised then reviewed by the CPG Committee. An updated page with details for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Contact_prophylaxis_for_invasive_meningococcal_or_Hib_disease\/\">Chemoprophylaxis for contacts<\/a> is included. It will be considered for PIC endorsement on 18 June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Symptoms at presentation can be non-specific, so early diagnostic consideration, investigation and empiric treatment is needed<\/li>\n<li>Prompt investigations (including lumbar puncture), together with early antibiotic administration, gives the best outcomes in bacterial meningitis<\/li>\n<li>Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) encephalitis should be considered in any child with encephalopathy<\/li>\n<li>Aciclovir should be given to children with encephalitis of uncertain aetiology<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This existing Victorian Statewide CPG has been revised and will be considered for PIC endorsement on 18 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}