Queensland Children’s Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, and the Children’s Hospital Westmead are undertaking a collaborative study of optimal fever management in the paediatric oncology population. Neutropenic fevers are the most common emergency presentation in children with cancer, with a risk for rapid deterioration to septic shock. There are established guidelines which direct the management of the child presenting with fever, requiring a time to antibiotics of <60 minutes from presentation. The primary study objective is to identify those factors which impede optimal fever management in children with cancer.
Started: 1 July 2013
Ending: 30 June 2020
Principal Investigators:
Dr Luciano Dalla-Pozza & Assoc Prof Julia Clark
