The intensive care support of patients with malignancy: Do everything that can be done

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-5

  Azoulay, Élie ^a   Afessa, Bekele ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER PATIENT; COURSE EVALUATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 29844455743     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2835-6     Document Type: Editorial

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