Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of inf...[BMJ. 1996]

SearchDatabase nameforSearch term

Advanced Search

Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here...

Display Show

All: 1

Review: 1

Click to change filter selection through MyNCBI.

1: BMJ. 1996 Feb 17;312(7028):430-4. Links

Comment in:: BMJ. 1996 May 25;312(7042):1359-60; author reply 1361.; BMJ. 1996 May 25;312(7042):1360.; BMJ. 1996 May 25;312(7042):1360-1.; BMJ. 1996 May 25;312(7042):1360; author reply 1361.; BMJ. 1996 May 25;312(7042):1360; author reply 1361.; BMJ. 1996 May 25;312(7042):1360; author reply 1361.; BMJ. 1996 May 25;312(7042):1361.

Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen. Working Party of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology Clinical Haematology Task Force.

[No authors listed]

Working Party of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology Clinical Haematology Task Force, UK.

Overwhelming postsplenectomy infection should be preventable if simple precautions are taken. An ad hoc working party of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology has reviewed recommendations for patients without a spleen and drawn up a consensus. Members of the working party were selected for their personal expertise and to represent relevant professional bodies. The guidelines, which are set out below, include and extend the chief medical officer's 1994 update.

PMID: 8601117 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2350106

Update of guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen. [Clin Med. 2002]
ReviewPrevention and management of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection--an update. [Crit Care Med. 1999]
Patient awareness of health precautions after splenectomy. [Am J Infect Control. 1991]
Guidelines for the clinical use of blood cell separators. Joint Working Party of the Transfusion and Clinical Haematology Task Forces of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology. [Clin Lab Haematol. 1998]
ReviewUse of antibiotics in penetrating craniocerebral injuries. "Infection in Neurosurgery" Working Party of British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. [Lancet. 2000]

Display Show

Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen. Working Party of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology Clinical Haematology Task Force.

Related Articles