Acute Care of the Cancer Patient serves as an invaluable source of guidance for anyone specializing in the care of acutely ill cancer patients-providing quick reference to effective techniques, therapies, and approaches for surgical, medical, pediatric, pain, and general oncology issues.

Features:

• Supplies authoritative guidance on nonsurgical issues rarely discussed elsewhere in the literature
• Details the anesthetic, surgical, and intensive care practices of physicians with extensive knowledge in their respective subspecialties-focusing on modern methods of pain management
• Emphasizes therapies unique to the cancer patient, including hyperthermic perfusion, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for solid tumor disease
• Contains many clear illustrations, figures, tables, and photographs
• Provides much information that has previously been unavailable in print

Contents

• General Principles of Oncology
• Cancer Growth, Progression, and Metastasis
• Principles of Clinical Cancer Staging
• Principles of Surgical Cancer Care
• Principles of Chemotherapy
• Endocrine Evaluation and Management of the Perioperative Cancer Patient
• Principles of Bioimmunotherapy: Interferon, Interleukins, Growth Factors, Monoclonal Antibodies, Antisense
• Bone Marrow Transplantation Complications Requiring Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit
• Principles of Radiation Oncology
• Clinical Trials in Oncology 1: Organization and Oversight
• Clinical Trials in Oncology 2: Study Design
• Clinical Trials in Oncology 3: Ethical Issues
• Perioperative Medicine in the Oncology Patient
• General Principles of Perioperative Medicine: Surgical and Medical Perspectives
• Perioperative Care of the Immunocompromised Patient
• Anesthesia for the Chronic Pain Patient
• Perioperative Anesthesia Evaluation
• Perioperative Management 1: Brain Tumors
• Perioperative Care for Breast and Gynecological Neoplasms
• Postanesthesia Care for Reconstructive Microcascular Surgery
• Musculoskeletal Neoplasms
• Perioperative Care of Intraoperative Chemotherapy and Radiation
• Critical Care in Medical Oncology
• Principles of ICU Oncology
• Delirium and Substance Withdrawel
• Neutropenia and Sepsis in Cancer Patients
• Acute Coronary Syndrome in Cancer Patients
• Critical Care of the Patient with Pulmonary Infiltrates
• Cardiovascular Support
• Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation in Cancer Patients
• Interventional Radiology in the Oncologic Critical Care Setting
• Care at the End of Life
• Legal Considerations
• Perioperative Care of Children with Cancer
• Perioperative Care of Children with Cancer: Overview
• Perioperative Care of Children with Cancer
• Perioperative Care of Children with Cancer: Intensive Care Perspectives
• Pediatric Surgical Oncology
• Pain Management
• Symptom Assessment
• Pathophysiology of Cancer Pain
• Epidemiology of Pain and Cancer-Related Symptoms
• Perioperative Pain in Cancer Patients
• Cancer Pain
• Palliative Care

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