[Intensive Care Management of Severe Infections in Cancer Patients]

Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 2019 Sep;144(19):1333-1341. doi: 10.1055/a-0853-4739. Epub 2019 Sep 26.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Despite treatment options of cancer patients have been improved, the treatment of complications is usually very complex and often includes intensive care unit admission. Infections play a major role here. Risk patients and factors, timely detection of infections and septic states, diagnostic options and treatment options in the management of these cancer patients will be presented in this paper.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Critical Care*
  • Humans
  • Infections* / diagnosis
  • Infections* / epidemiology
  • Infections* / etiology
  • Infections* / therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms* / complications
  • Neoplasms* / epidemiology
  • Neoplasms* / therapy
  • Prognosis
  • Risk Factors