RESCUE FROM NEUTROPENIC FEVER AND A BAMBOO POLE

Authors
YI CY TAN IKS
Citation
Cy. Yi et Iks. Tan, RESCUE FROM NEUTROPENIC FEVER AND A BAMBOO POLE, Anaesthesia, 53(2), 1998, pp. 173-176
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology
Journal title
Anaesthesia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00032409
Volume
53
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
173 - 176
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-2409(1998)53:2<173:RFNFAA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We describe a patient admitted to the intensive care unit following a penetrating head injury. This patient developed agranulocytosis and su bsequently pancytopenia secondary to an idiosyncratic drug reaction. T he possible causative drugs are phenytoin, cloxacillin, ceftriaxone an d ceftazidime. The patient was treated with recombinant human granuloc yte colony-stimulating factor.