Critically ill cancer patient in intensive care unit: Issues that arise

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 817-822

  Kostakou, Eirini ^a   Rovina, Nikoletta ^a   Kyriakopoulou, Magdalini ^a   Koulouris, Nikolaos G ^a   Koutsoukou, Antonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Critically ill; End of life care; Intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSENSUS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUTHANASIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; COMPLICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NEOPLASMS; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SEPSIS; TERMINAL CARE; TRIAGE;

EID: 84906057739     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2014.04.007     Document Type: Review

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