Initial Management of Fever and Neutropenia in a Child With Cancer—The Past, the Present, and the Future

Fever in a patient with an underlying malignancy who has neutropenia is a relatively common event that requires urgent attention because of the risk of associated morbidity and mortality. Although a clinically suspected or microbiologically documented bacterial infection is present in up to half of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical pediatric emergency medicine 2011-09, Vol.12 (3), p.174-184
Hauptverfasser:	Hakim, Hana, MD, MS, Gaur, Aditya H., MD, MS
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antibiotics Bacterial infections Cancer children Emergency fever Infections management Mortality neutropenia risk prediction
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