PMID: 3383958Mar 1, 1988Paper

Role of intensive care unit in a medical oncology department

European Journal of Cancer & Clinical Oncology
J P SculierJ Klastersky

Abstract

Over a 4-year period, 912 patients were admitted to the ICU of the medical oncology service at the Institut Jules Bordet: 574 (63%) were admitted for medical emergencies and 338 (37%) for intensive treatment and/or monitoring. In the first group, the main causes of admission were hypercalcemia, thromboembolic disease, cardiac arhythmias, encephalopathies and pneumopathies. Overall mortality during the ICU stay was 23% (133/574). In the second group, patients were admitted primarily in order to receive, under optimal surveillance, anticancer treatment, either because they were at high risk of complications or because the approach was mainly investigational; several investigations, in the fields of supportive care and anticancer treatment, were successfully conducted within the ICU environment.

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Citations

Mar 1, 1995·Supportive Care in Cancer : Official Journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·J P Sculier
Mar 1, 1995·Supportive Care in Cancer : Official Journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·J P Sculier, E Markiewicz
May 1, 1993·Supportive Care in Cancer : Official Journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·J P Sculier, E Markiewicz
Mar 1, 1992·Archives of Disease in Childhood·D HeneyC C Bailey
Mar 1, 1990·European Journal of Cancer : Official Journal for European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) [and] European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)·J GerainL Thémelin
Jan 1, 2007·Intensivmedizin + Notfallmedizin : Organ Der Deutschen Und Der Österreichischen Gesellschaft Für Internistische Intensivmedizin, Der Sektion Neurologie Der DGIM Und Der Sektion Intensivmedizin Im Berufsverband Deutscher Internisten E.V·S Zierhut, A Reichle

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