Mechanical Ventilation in Cancer Patients: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes

Critical Care Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-58

  Soares, Márcio ^a   Depuydt, Pieter O ^b   Salluh, Jorge I F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Cancer; Mechanical ventilation; Noninvasive ventilation; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; OXYGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BRONCHOSPASM; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NEOPLASMS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70450216798     PISSN: 07490704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2009.09.005     Document Type: Review

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