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Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians
Every sixth to eighth European intensive care unit patient suffers from an underlying malignant disease. A large proportion of these patients present with cancer-related complications. This review explains why the prognosis of critically ill cancer patients has improved substantially over the last d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786590/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12254-016-0256-6 |
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author | Schellongowski, Peter Kiehl, Michael Kochanek, Matthias Staudinger, Thomas Beutel, Gernot |
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description | Every sixth to eighth European intensive care unit patient suffers from an underlying malignant disease. A large proportion of these patients present with cancer-related complications. This review explains why the prognosis of critically ill cancer patients has improved substantially over the last decades and which risk factors are of prognostic importance. Furthermore, the main reasons for intensive care unit admission – acute respiratory failure and septic complications – are discussed with regard to diagnostic and therapeutic specifics. In addition, we discuss potential intensive care unit admission criteria with respect to cancer prognosis. The successful management of critically ill cancer patients requires a close collaboration of intensivists with hematologists, oncologists and colleagues from other disciplines, such as infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, radiologists, surgeons, pharmacists, and others. |
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spelling | pubmed-47865902016-04-09 Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians Schellongowski, Peter Kiehl, Michael Kochanek, Matthias Staudinger, Thomas Beutel, Gernot Memo Review Every sixth to eighth European intensive care unit patient suffers from an underlying malignant disease. A large proportion of these patients present with cancer-related complications. This review explains why the prognosis of critically ill cancer patients has improved substantially over the last decades and which risk factors are of prognostic importance. Furthermore, the main reasons for intensive care unit admission – acute respiratory failure and septic complications – are discussed with regard to diagnostic and therapeutic specifics. In addition, we discuss potential intensive care unit admission criteria with respect to cancer prognosis. The successful management of critically ill cancer patients requires a close collaboration of intensivists with hematologists, oncologists and colleagues from other disciplines, such as infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, radiologists, surgeons, pharmacists, and others. Springer Vienna 2016-03-08 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4786590/ /pubmed/27069513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12254-016-0256-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Review Schellongowski, Peter Kiehl, Michael Kochanek, Matthias Staudinger, Thomas Beutel, Gernot Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians |
title | Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians |
title_full | Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians |
title_fullStr | Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians |
title_full_unstemmed | Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians |
title_short | Intensive care for cancer patients: An interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians |
title_sort | intensive care for cancer patients: an interdisciplinary challenge for cancer specialists and intensive care physicians |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786590/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12254-016-0256-6 |
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