A few decades have passed since intensive care unit (ICU) beds have been available for
critically ill patients with cancer. Although the initial reports showed dismal prognosis, recent …

• Background Long stays in the intensive care unit are associated with high costs and
burdens on patients and patients' families and in turn affect society at large. Although factors …

Purpose Patients with hematologic malignancies are increasingly admitted to the intensive
care unit (ICU) when life-threatening events occur. We sought to report outcomes and …

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 …

Objective: To determine whether the survival gains achieved in critically ill cancer patients in
recent years exist in the subset with neutropenia and severe sepsis or septic shock. Design …

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical characteristics and
outcomes of patients with cancer requiring nonpalliative ventilatory support. METHODS This …

Objectives: The current trend to manage critically ill hematologic patients admitted with acute
respiratory failure is to perform noninvasive ventilation to avoid endotracheal intubation …

Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) worsens outcome in various scenarios. We sought to
investigate whether the occurrence of AKI has any effect on weaning from mechanical …

Purpose One in seven patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) has a cancer diagnosis
but evidence on their expected outcomes after admission has not been synthesised …

Objective: Septic shock is a severe, often terminal, complication of malignancy. For patients
without malignancy, outcome from septic shock has improved with new advances in care …