The critically-ill pediatric hemato-oncology patient: Epidemiology, management, and strategy of transfer to the pediatric intensive care unit

Annals of Intensive Care

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Demaret, Pierre ^a   Pettersen, Geraldine ^a   Hubert, Philippe ^b   Teira, Pierre ^a   Emeriaud, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Child; Critical care; Graft; Hematology; Intensive care; Oncology; Pediatrics; Stem cell; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKEMIA; LUNG DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME;

EID: 84864263208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21105820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2110-5820-2-14     Document Type: Review

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