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Rescue from neutropenic fever and a bamboo pole
Author(s) -
Yi C. Y.,
Tan I. K. S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00276.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cloxacillin , pancytopenia , ceftriaxone , ceftazidime , intensive care unit , neutropenia , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , surgery , immunology , chemotherapy , microbiology and biotechnology , penicillin , pseudomonas aeruginosa , bone marrow , genetics , bacteria , biology
We describe a patient admitted to the intensive care unit following a penetrating head injury. This patient developed agranulocytosis and subsequently pancytopenia secondary to an idiosyncratic drug reaction. The possible causative drugs are phenytoin, cloxacillin, ceftriaxone and ceftazidime. The patient was treated with recombinant human granulocyte colony‐stimulating factor.