Paeds Cases · clinical-pharmacology-and-therapeutics

Screen before you vaccinate — vaccines and immunobiology

A bedside structured clinical encounter testing safe childhood vaccination — the prevaccination screen for immunocompromise, pregnancy, severe allergy, and the interval since any live vaccine or blood product; the live-versus-inactivated distinction; the four-week spacing rule; the rotavirus age limits; the premature-infant chronological-age rule; the catch-up minimum-interval principle; and the recognition of anaphylaxis after a vaccine.