How do you work up neutropenia? When is neutropenia benign? When do neutrophils recover? How can you diagnose neutropenic fever in the first 15 minutes and start antibiotics in the first 60 minutes? Do you always add MRSA coverages? Only Pseudomonas coverage? When do you add fungal coverage?

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🔹 Transcript & Show Notes

Timestamps:

(02:24) | Approach to Neutropenia & Duffy Null

(11:38) | Dose and duration-dependent neutropenia vs. immune-mediated neutropenia

(19:46) | When do neutrophils recover?

(29:56) | Classifying Neutropenic Fever Syndromes

(29:53) | Strategies for Managing Low-Risk Neutropenic Fever

(33:02) | Antimicrobial Therapy and Duration in Febrile Neutropenia

Tags: CoreIM, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Hematology, Medical Education, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Neutropenic Fever Management, Antibiotics

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