Practicing Antimicrobial Stewardship: De-Escalating Antibiotics in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Neutropenic Fever. (21st April 2020) - Fuller, Risa
Abstract: We compared risk of recurrent fever in patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing induction chemotherapy with febrile neutropenia without an infectious source in which antibacterials were de-escalated before neutrophil recovery versus continued. There was less recurrent fever when antibacterials were de-escalated early with no increased adverse events.