Staphylococcus aureus Dissemination Presenting With Encephalopathy and Epidural Abscess

Abstract

Conclusion: The health outcome of the critically ill especially elderly patients depends mostly on the importance of clinical medicine to address the diagnostic enigma and virtue of supportive care delivered. Staphylococcus aureus infections are capable of developing distant infectious foci, as highlighted in this case, and that the clinician should be alert to this possibility. This particular case firmly posits an admonition for clinicians and the importance of clinical medicine for critical reasoning to improve the patient outcome.