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Dexamethasone Bacterial Meningitis In Children
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Dexamethasone Bacterial Meningitis In Children
January 27, 1989 (Issue: 784)
A recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that in children with bacterial meningitis, adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone (Decadron; and others) to antibiotic treatment could decrease the incidence of moderate or severe...more
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