There’s a nice post on this topic in the Clinical Correlations blog titled Neutorpenic Precautions Demystified. It should have been titled Neutropenic Precautions Debunked because it’s one of the most non-evidence based things we do in medicine. Save for a few notable exceptions these patients get infected from within rather than from without.
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How do you decide if a patient is truely neutropenic?
What measurement do you go by?
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