Oncology admissions to the intensive care unit: what factors should influence the decision?
| Autor: | Sophie Joury, Roopinder Gillmore, Kenrick Ng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
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medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment law.invention 03 medical and health sciences Patient Admission 0302 clinical medicine law Neoplasms medicine Humans Intubation Clinical and Scientific Letters In patient 030212 general & internal medicine Intensive care medicine Aged Retrospective Studies Icu mortality business.industry Cancer General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Intensive care unit Intensive Care Units Ethical dilemma business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Medicine. 17:375-375 |
| ISSN: | 1473-4893 1470-2118 |
| DOI: | 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-375 |
| Popis: | The admission of critically unwell patients with cancer to the intensive care unit (ICU) often presents physicians and intensivists with a clinical and ethical dilemma. Studies in the 1990s cited ICU mortality rates of 75–91% for cancer patients who required intubation, and up to 95% in patients |
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