The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices just released the 2014 schedule for childhood immunizations. There are minimal changes over last year, basically:
–meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4-CRM) can be used down to 2 months of age in high risk (eg anatomic or functional asplenia, complement component deficiency)
-includes what to do if patient given vaccine prior to minimum age/interval between doses (incorporated in the catch-up vaccine chart, which is much clearer than previously)
-updated flu vaccine recs for this year, also pneumococcal vaccine for high risk
-footnote updated for hep A vaccine (also remember to consider in adults who travel to endemic areas, which seems to be most of the world. though if they lived there as a child, consider checking titer first – since our experience is about 90% are already immune)
for mmwr overview of immun sched: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm63e0203a1.htm
for the immunization schedule in printable form: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/child-adolescent.html
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