neurologic disorders
Spinal Epidural Abscess
Treatment of Spinal Epidural Abscess
Antibiotics If abscess causes neurologic compromise, immediate drainage Antibiotics with or without parenteral needle aspiration may be sufficient treatment for a spinal epidural abscess; however, abscesses causing neurologic compromise (eg, paresis, bowel or bladder dysfunction) are surgically drained immediately. Pus is gram-stained and cultured. ) and anaerobes are given as for Treatment . If the abscess developed after a neurosurgical procedure or urologic instrumentation, 