[Intensive Care Management of Severe Infections in Cancer Patients].

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.

• Authors: Matthias Kochanek, Michael Kiehl, Tobias Liebregts
• Journal: Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) (Dtsch Med Wochenschr) Vol. 144 Issue 19 Pg. 1333-1341 (09 2019) ISSN: 1439-4413 [Electronic] Germany
• Vernacular Title: Intensivmedizinisches Management schwerer Infektionen bei Krebspatienten.
• PMID: 31559614 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
• Copyright: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

Topics

• Aged
• Critical Care
• Humans
• Infections (diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, therapy)
• Middle Aged
• Neoplasms (complications, epidemiology, therapy)
• Prognosis
• Risk Factors