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Filter by:Febrile neutropenia (NF) is a common serious complication of cancer chemotherapy. Outpatient management of chemotherapy treatments is made essential by the volume of patients treated, respect for their quality of life and the lack of hospitalization resources. The prevention of NF is well documented and its success depends on the risks of developing NF related to the type of chemotherapy protocol used and the profile of the patient and his disease. Pegfilgrastim (G-CSF, biosimilar medicine) injection has been shown to prevent (febrile) neutropenia. It is routinely prescribed on an outpatient basis for patients treated with chemotherapy (CT), several thousand times a year in our geographical area. In order to take into account patient preferences and help clinical decision-making, this study will be conducted on the basis of self-administered questionnaires. The aim of the research is to assess patient preference for receiving administration of PELGRAZ (Accord Healthcare) using a prefilled syringe or a prefilled pen device. In a second step, this study will evaluate the learning of the patient and his autonomy during a pen self-injection guided by a nurse.
BioSticker data is remotely tracked and displayed in a report termed the BioReport for retrospective data analysis. Typically, the biosensor collects data on an interval of ~1 minute and this data is collated and reported remotely back to the BioReport every 6 hours. More importantly, for future applications of the BioSticker for early detection of FN, there are ongoing efforts to implement real time reporting and alarms using remote monitoring services that could alert the patient that they need to seek medical care. There are no known deleterious effects from the BioSticker and it is now being widely used and tested in diverse applications including detection and contact tracing of COVID and others.
In this prospective monocenter observational study, the objective was to determine a safe and effective therapeutic window for cefepime in patients with neutropenic fever.
Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a major life-threatening treatment complication in cancer patients undergoing intensive chemotherapy. Endogenous flora is considered to be one of the main sources of infections during neutropenia. Competitive inhibition of gut mucosal colonization by pathogenic microorganisms using synbiotics could represent one of the potential options for its prevention. Synbiotics represent combination of two components: probiotics and prebiotics. Probiotics are live microorganisms, which in form of drugs or food supplements administered at a sufficient dose help to maintain health beneficial microbial balance in the digestive tract of a human or other host. Prebiotics are food ingredients nondigestible for our digestive enzymes, but can be fermented by bacteria in our bowel and this way selectively stimulate growth or activity of specific saccharolytic bacterial strains. These changes in composition of our microflora may bring benefits on host well-being and health. Based on the results of human and animal studies, probiotics probably can not only decrease the level of gut colonisation with pathogenic bacteria, but may also lead to reduction in the duration of neutropenia, accelerate the restitution of the intestinal mucosa and boost immunity. Despite a significant number of studies on probiotics still only little evidence of their safety especially in immunocompromised patients is available. To help find new options for increasing quality of healthcare for children cancer patients and also to evaluate safety of this new approach investigators designed double-blinded placebo controled multicenter study aimed to decrease the number of febrile episodes using prevention with synbiotic.