Spleen registry may help reduce the incidence of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in Victoria

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-50

  Denholm, Justin T ^a   Jones, Penelope A ^b   Spelman, Denis W ^b   Cameron, Paul U ^b   Woolley, Ian J ^c  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; METHOTREXATE; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; ROXITHROMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACANTHOCYTOSIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; AGITATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GRAM STAINING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTSPLENECTOMY INFECTION; RISK REDUCTION; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; TARGET CELL; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REGISTER; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PENICILLIN G; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN; VICTORIA;

EID: 77449152376     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03404.x     Document Type: Article

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