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Pediatric Oncology • Rhabdomyosarcoma • Infectious Disease • CNS Disease • Infection Prevention and Control
What is the risk of serious bacterial infection in a febrile solid tumor patient who has not yet started cancer-directed therapy and has normal cell counts with no central line?
Answer from: at Community Practice
This depends on the type of the tumor, the location, and the individual circumstances. It may not be wrong in this scenario to draw blood cultures and give a dose of ceftriaxone pending 24-hour results, but this practice may also vary based on these different variables e.g. RMS of paranasal-ear area...
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