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Medical Student Forums => Questions, Exams & Study tips => Topic started by: Viza on January 11, 2009, 08:46:16 PM
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When bacterial meningitis is suspected, should you hold off on intravenous antibiotics until the lumbar puncture is performed?
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as a general rule or rule of thumb we should not take sample from a patient who is on antibiotics, if that happens we should give the patient a recovery period ( a time in which the drug ceases to a very minimal concentrations in the patients tissues or plasma) .
So , I think it is the same thing here if we suspect that a patient has Bacterial meningitis we should hold off antibiotics until the lumber puncture is performed.