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As many as 15% of patients with cancer experience malignant spinal cord compression throughout the course of their disease. Patients with lung, prostate, or breast cancer or multiple myeloma are at a higher risk for this complication. Learn about the clinical manifestations, emergency interventions, and nursing considerations.
Revisit the oncologic emergency, hypercalcemia of malignancy, including risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions.
Palliative care is a holistic approach that focuses on providing patients relief from the symptoms and stress of serious illness and its treatment. Review this huddle card to learn about palliative care and its role in cancer care.
Review this Huddle Card on the oncologic emergency disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). The card explores DIC’s risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions. This is a great educational resource for you and your colleagues.
Individually or within a group, review this card about the basic principles of cancer staging. This process is critical for treatment planning, eligibility for clinical trials, and treatment response.
Safe administration of high-risk anticancer medications requires careful calculation of ordered doses. Review this huddle card to understand how to calculate body surface area (BSA).
Review this huddle card to learn about altered body image in patients with cancer. Cancer treatments can affect physical appearance and cause functional changes to the body, which can adversely affect how people perceive and feel about their bodies.
Superior vena cava syndrome affects 3%-4% of patients with cancer involving the chest so patients with a diagnosis of lung cancer or non-Hodgkin lymphoma are at a higher risk. Explore the diagnostic assessments needed, emergency interventions, and clinical manifestations.
Enhance your knowledge of cytokine release syndrome and how it can affect patients with cancer. The incidence of CRS happening depends on the type of cancer therapy and diagnosis. You will learn about the risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis assessment, emergency interventions and nursing considerations
A review on the types of diseases that HSCT can treat and the different types of HSCT treatments based on the donor and where the stem cells are derived. The intent of HSCT is to reduce or eliminate a patient’s own marrow spaces and replace and repopulate with healthy stem cells. This therapy provides the only currently known cure for some diseases.