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- Title
Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen.
- Authors
Working Party of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology Clinical Haematology Task Force
- Abstract
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.
- Publication
BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1996, Vol 312, Issue 7028, p430
- ISSN
0959-8138
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/bmj.312.7028.430