Adjunctive steroid vs placebo
Hearing loss · neonates with clinical and microbiological features of bacterial meningitis
Adjunctive steroid may leads to lower hearing loss at 4 to 10 weeks after discharge compared with placebo (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Adjuvant corticosteroids for reducing death in neonatal bacterial meningitis 2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 0.41 [0.17, 0.98]1 study · 59 participantsLow