Adjunctive steroid vs placebo
Hearing loss · neonates with clinical and microbiological features of bacterial meningitis
Adjunctive steroid showed no clear difference in hearing loss at 2 years of age compared with placebo (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Adjuvant corticosteroids for reducing death in neonatal bacterial meningitis 2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 1.8 [0.18, 18.21]1 study · 38 participantsLow