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Title |
Osmotic therapies added to antibiotics for acute bacterial meningitis
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Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2013
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DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd008806.pub2 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Emma CB Wall, Katherine MB Ajdukiewicz, Robert S Heyderman, Paul Garner |
Abstract |
Every day children and adults throughout the world die from acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis, particularly in low-income countries. Survivors are at risk of deafness, epilepsy and neurological disabilities. Osmotic therapies have been proposed as an adjunct to improve mortality and morbidity from bacterial meningitis. The theory is that they will attract extra-vascular fluid by osmosis and thus reduce cerebral oedema by moving excess water from the brain into the blood. The intention is to thus reduce death and improve neurological outcomes. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 5 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 120 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
Japan | 1 | <1% |
India | 1 | <1% |
Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 115 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Bachelor | 25 | 21% |
Student > Master | 19 | 16% |
Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 11% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 11% |
Researcher | 12 | 10% |
Other | 26 | 22% |
Unknown | 12 | 10% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 68 | 57% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 7% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 6% |
Psychology | 5 | 4% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
Other | 11 | 9% |
Unknown | 18 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2015.
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#8,616,072
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Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#9,758
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#72,035
of 210,729 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#161
of 214 outputs
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