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ReviewESMO open2016

Critically ill patients with cancer: chances and limitations of intensive care medicine-a narrative review.

Peter Schellongowski, Wolfgang R Sperr, Philipp Wohlfarth, Paul Knoebl, Werner Rabitsch, Herbert H Watzke, Thomas Staudinger

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Review in ESMO open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. [What is confirmed in the treatment of sepsis? : An update].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024
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  5. Outcome of patients with solid malignancies considered for intensive care unit admission: a single-center prospective cohort study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024
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  16. [Hemato-oncology and intensive care medicine : From taboo to indispensable].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2020
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  17. Decision-Making Processes in Surrogates of Cancer Patients in a Taiwan Intensive Care Unit.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  19. Long-term prognosis of septic shock in cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Peter SchellongowskiDepartment of Medicine I, Intensive Care Unit 13i2 , Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
Wolfgang R SperrDepartment of Medicine I, Clinical Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology , Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
Philipp WohlfarthDepartment of Medicine I, Intensive Care Unit 13i2 , Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
Paul KnoeblDepartment of Medicine I, Clinical Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology , Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
Werner RabitschDepartment of Medicine I, Bone Marrow Transplantation , Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
Herbert H WatzkeDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Division of Palliative Medicine , Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.
Thomas StaudingerDepartment of Medicine I, Intensive Care Unit 13i2 , Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 specific complications of critically ill patients with cancer require close collaborations of intensive care and cancer specialists. Intensivists require a basic understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy of common cancer-specific problems. Cancer specialists must be knowledgeable in preventing, detecting and treating imminent or manifest organ failures. In case of one or more organ dysfunctions, ICU admissions must be evaluated early. In order to properly define the therapy goals for critically ill patients with cancer, decision-makers must be aware of the short-term intensive care prognosis as well as the long-term oncological options and perspectives. Multidisciplinary teamwork is key when it comes down to decisions on ICU admission, planning of therapeutic aims, patient management in the ICU and tailored therapy limiting with smooth transition into a palliative care (PC) setting, whenever appropriate.

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admission criteriacancerintensive care unitpalliative care

Identifiers

PMID27843637
PMCPMC5070251

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