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Safe delivery of high-risk anticancer medications requires coordination among all members of the care team. Review this card to understand the important checkpoints for pre-treatment verification that promote safe administration of anticancer therapies.
Revisit the oncologic emergency, hypercalcemia of malignancy, including risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions.
Individually or within a group, review this card on the basic principles of tumor grading, including the process for grading and how it is used in combination with other factors to determine prognosis.
Anaphylaxis can be life-threatening and occurs in approximately 5% of patients receiving antineoplastic infusions. Areas covered in this huddle card are risk factors, clinical manifestation, diagnostic assessment, emergency interventions and nursing considerations. This is a valuable resource for all nurses with patients receiving cancer treatments.
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.
Tumor lysis syndrome occurs when large numbers of rapidly dividing cells are killed and release their contents into the bloodstream. Learn which patients are at high risk for this issue, as well as the interventions that can be administered to avoid life threatening outcomes.
Explore how different therapies and modalities used in cancer treatment can be combined in various sequences to achieve the optimal treatment outcome. This card provides the terms used to offer context for where a therapy is positioned in the sequence of treatment modalities and to describe the intent of the intervention.