OBJECTIVE:To explore the role and breakthrough point of clinical pharmacist in the anti-infective therapy for a patient with purulent meningitis. METHODS:Clinical pharmacists provided pharmaceutical care for a patient with purulent meningi-tis,assisted physicians to adjust therapy plan of antibiotics,i.e. anti-infective therapy of vancomycin+ceftriaxone sodium,meropen-em+vancomycin,levofloxacin+vancomycin successively;disposed ADR induced by meropenem and levofloxacin. RESULTS:The physicians adopted the suggestions of clinical pharmacists,the infection symptom had been controlled,and ADR disappeared;and then the patient was discharged from hospital. CONCLUSIONS:Clinical pharmacists provide pharmaceutical care for patient with purulent meningitis,assist the physicians to develop safe and effective anti-infective therapy plan,and dispose ADR timely so as to promote rational drug use in the clinic.