How do you decide duration of therapy when you give fluoroquinolones prophylactically?

20 June, 2018

Q08. How do you decide duration of therapy when you give fluoroquinolones prophylactically? 

Summary: Prophylactic therapy should be started in patients at risk of developing febrile neutropenia and continue until fever subsides and neutropenia improves (absolute neutrophil count [ANC] >500 cells/mm3).