作者
Márcio Soares, Pedro Caruso, Eliézer Silva, José MM Teles, Suzana Lobo, Gilberto Friedman, Felipe Dal Pizzol, Patricia VC Mello, Fernando A Bozza, Ulisses VA Silva, André P Torelly, Marcos F Knibel, Ederlon Rezende, José J Netto, Claudio Piras, Aline Castro, Bruno S Ferreira, Álvaro Réa-Neto, Patrícia B Olmedo, Jorge IF Salluh
发表日期
2010/1
期刊
Critical care medicine
卷号
38
期号
1
页码范围
9
简介
Objective:
To evaluate the characteristics and outcomes of patients with cancer admitted to several intensive care units. Knowledge on patients with cancer requiring intensive care is mostly restricted to single-center studies.
Design:
Prospective, multicenter, cohort study.
Setting:
Intensive care units from 28 hospitals in Brazil.
Patients:
A total of 717 consecutive patients included over a 2-mo period.
Interventions:
None.
Measurements and Main Results:
There were 667 (93%) patients with solid tumors and 50 (7%) patients had hematologic malignancies. The main reasons for intensive care unit admission were postoperative care (57%), sepsis (15%), and respiratory failure (10%). Overall hospital mortality rate was 30% and was higher in patients admitted because of medical complications (58%) than in emergency (37%) and scheduled (11%) surgical patients (p<. 001). Adjusting for covariates other than the type of …
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