PEDIATRICS Vol. 55 No. 6 June 1975, pp. 896
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Comment on Outpatient Intravenous Therapy

Simeon David M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Gouverneur Hospital 227 Madison Street, New York, New York 10002

There has been a recent trend to treating more and more pediatric patients with chronic diseases on an ambulatory basis. This is true of both hemophilia1,2 and cystic fibrosis. In a recent report Drs. Rucker and Harrison3 presented data on 62 patients who received a total of 127 outpatient intravenous antibiotic courses for bronchopulmonary infections. Despite their success in keeping slightly more than two thirds of their patients out of the hospital, I think that they might be more successful in the future if the following points are considered.