Specialized critical care is an evolving concept that helps in better patient management and
outcome. Cancer patients are a separate group of patients with physiologic and pathological …

Critical care of patients with cancer has progressed despite many challenges in recent
decades. In the early 1980s, a cancer diagnosis was considered a contraindication for …

Background Currently the majority of cancer patients are considered ineligible for intensive
care treatment and oncologists are struggling to get their patients admitted to intensive care …

The specialty of critical care oncology has emerged as a result of changes in treatment of
malignancies and technologic critical care developments. In this article, the author provides …

The world population continues its inexorable growth. Based on the United Nations' latest
report on world population, we have reached a population of 7.5 billion people of which 1 …

This narrative review deals with the challenge of defining adequate therapy goals and
intensive care unit (ICU) admission criteria for critically ill patients with cancer. Several …

Over the coming years, accelerating progress against cancer will be associated with an
increased number of patients who require life-sustaining therapies for infectious or toxic …

Introduction Prognosis in oncology has improved with early diagnosis and novel therapies.
However, critical illness continues to trigger clinical and ethical dilemmas for the treating …

The number of patients with cancer requiring intensive care unit admission is increasing
around the world. The improvement in the pathophysiological understanding of this group of …

ICU admission of selected cancer patients leads to meaningful survival. The optimal time of
ICU admission needs to be determined, and patient selection criteria by both hemato …