Antibiotic prophylaxis in hematooncological patients - expert reccomendations with the support of CELL, CHS and COS CLS JEP, S.CH.S. SLS

Abstract

Bacterial infections are potentially life-threatening complications in patients with febrile neutropenia (FN) after anticancer chemotherapy. Randomized controlled trials on fluoroquinolone (FQ) prophylaxis provided the evidence of usefullness of such an approach in reducing rate of febrile episodes, the rate of microbiologically documented infections...

Keywords

• antibacterial prophylaxis
• fluoroquinolone
• febrile neutropenia
• acute leukemia
• hematopoietic stem cell transplantation