Preventing Rh immunisation

Ethical issues in preventing mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B by immunisation.

Without intervention, a pregnant woman who is a chronic hepatitis B carrier is at risk of transmitting hepatitis B and of her infant becoming a chronic carrier and having a significantly increased lifetime risk of developing liver cancer or cirrhosis. Hepatitis B vaccine and immunoglobulin reduce the risk of the baby becoming a carrier, but with only a short window period after birth to deliver...

Role of IVIG in preventing exchange transfusions in Rh hemolytic disease.

Mapping immunisation coverage and conscientious objectors to immunisation in NSW.

The Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) commenced operation on 1 January 1996 and is now an important component of the Immunise Australia Program. Immunisations are generally notified to the ACIR either by electronic means—by email or the internet—or by hard copy notification forms. Parents with children who have a personal, philosophical, religious or medical belief that immunisa...

Immunisation, rehydration, and transfusion.

The results of a survey of 64 Scottish general practitionerhospitals showed that in 1980 these hospitals contained3-3% of available staffed beds in Scotland; 13 6% of theresident population had access for initial hospital care,and 14-5% of Scottish general practitioners were on theirstaffs. During the year of the survey they discharged 1-8%of all non-surgical patients, t...

Immunisation against meningococcus B.

www.thelancet.com Vol 382 September 7, 2013 857 in 2000 under circumstances of uncertainty about efficacy and low (but in that case rising) disease incidence. A decision to introduce the Novartis vaccine, which is not really a meningococcus B but actually a broader, generic meningococcal vaccine, and to give it to adolescents and young adults who have the highest carriage rates could have been ...