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Preventing and treating infections in children with asplenia or hyposplenia.

Marina I Salvadori, Victoria E Price.   

Abstract

Children with asplenia or hyposplenia are at risk of developing overwhelming sepsis. Health care providers caring for children with asplenia should ensure the best outcomes by using preventive strategies that focus on parent and patient education, immunization, antibiotic prophylaxis and aggressive management of suspected infection. The present position statement offers current guidance on each of these issues and replaces a previous CPS statement, 'Prevention and therapy of bacterial infections for children with asplenia or hyposplenia', published in 1999.

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Keywords:  Antibiotic prophylaxis; Immunization; Sepsis; Splenectomy

Year:  2014        PMID: 24855431      PMCID: PMC4029242     

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Paediatr Child Health        ISSN: 1205-7088            Impact factor:   2.253


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