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Strike action from Thursday 27 June to Tuesday 2 July 2024

Junior doctors at The Christie will strike from 7am on Thursday 27 June until 7am on Tuesday 2 July 2024.

We are proactively contacting patients with appointments that may be affected. If you have an appointment on any of these dates, please continue to come to The Christie and our other centres as planned, unless we contact you to tell you otherwise. Please do not call to check if your appointment is still going ahead.

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Guidelines for the management of neutropenic sepsis

Acute oncology teams at all acute Trusts and The Christie support the care of cancer patients who present as an emergency, especially those on current or recent treatment. For patients undergoing treatment for cancer, all infective episodes need to be rapidly assessed and treated urgently with antibiotics.

Key points

  • Sepsis
  • Systemic Response Syndrome
  • Neutropenia definitions
  • Assessment of septic patient
  • Initial treatment, febrile at Day 4-6
  • Antibiotics, Empirical Treatments, removal of IV Lines, suitable IV antibiotic regimens.
  • Early and appropriate assessment and treatment of patients with life threatening infections

Document Owner: - Dr P Haji-Michael
Accountable Committee: - Resuscitation and Deteriorating Patients Committee
Date Approved: - March 2021
Review date: -March 2023
Target: - All clinicians
Download file - Guidelines for the management of sepsis (including neutropenic sepsis) [PDF file - 1MB]

Last updated: April 2023

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