Cancer and Resuscitation

Do-not-resuscitate orders are assigned more often to sicker patients but may be underused even among the most sick. Sickness at admission and functional impairment do not explain the increase in DNR orders with age or the disparity across diagnosis. Further evaluation is needed into whether variation in DNR order rates with age, diagnosis, race, gender, insurance status, and rural location represents differences in patient preferences or care compromising patient autonomy.

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Intensive care and oncology

Sculier

1995

Support Care Cancer

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Intensive care is increasingly used in the management of cancer patients. The main reasons for admitting a cancer patient to an intensive-care unit are postoperative recovery, critical complications of the cancer disease and its treatment, the administration and monitoring of intensive anticancer treatment, and acute disease unrelated to cancer or its treatment. The present review is focused on the prognosis of critically ill cancer patients, on the description of the types of complications requiring intensive care, on specific aspects of the application of critical-care techniques in cancer patients, on ethical considerations and on ICU organization in the context of oncology.

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Cancer and Resuscitation

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