In Reply

摘要

I welcome the letters in response to two articles and the editorial in the August 2006 issue of Anesthesiology regarding aspects of infectious complications of neuraxial instrumentation. van de Beek and de Gans discuss important information related to the treatment of post- dural puncture meningitis (PDPM). They recommend that ceftazidime or cefepime be substituted for the empiric third-generation cephalosporln recommendation in my review. The former drugs have been found to have greater in vitro activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (However, their reference 5 does not mention either P. aeruginosa or cefepime.)