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Palivizumab Therapeutic Use Criteria
 

Therapeutic Use Criteria:

  • Infants with BPD requiring medical management in the previous 6 months and <2 years of age at onset of RSV season

  • Premature infants without BPD, but:

  • Infants at highest risk: all infants born at <28 weeks gestation and <1 year of age at onset of RSV season

  • Infants born at 29-32 weeks gestation and <6 months old at onset of RSV season

  • Infants born at 33-35 weeks gestation, on a case-by-case basis, if other risk factors present:

- Multiple births
- Crowded household (>4 people or siblings)
- Child in daycare
- Smokers present in the home

 

 

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Posted on: 8/02 | For Internal University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center Use Only

Comments to Kelly Smith, Pharm.D., Last Modified: August 13, 2006
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