How to Manage Low Risk Fever and Neutropenia as an Outpatient

A good rule of thumb is that a solid tumor patient such as this gentleman who has esophageal cancer, the chemotherapy that they receive is generally not cytotoxic. And so if they are going to be neutropenic, the neutropenia is going to be relatively mild and it's going to be short. So that would be potentially a really good candidate for for outpatient management. The fact that he's still able to perform household chores suggests that his performance status is actually pretty good. He does have some comorbidities, a hypertension, hyperlipidemia, but I don't know how well we can controlled in terms of blood pressure. But let's say that