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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.
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
When transferring patient care to another provider, healthcare professionals use clinical handoff communication to relay information to ensure continuity of care. Review this huddle card in a group or individually to understand the important components of handoff communication and promote safe transition of care in your practice.
Revisit the oncologic emergency, hypercalcemia of malignancy, including risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions.
Review this card about sepsis, an oncologic emergency, in a group or individually. Sepsis risk factors and manifestations as well as assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions are described.
This huddle card is a refresher on the oncologic emergency cardiac tamponade. This card includes information on risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions for cardiac tamponade.
Antineoplastic drugs, commonly known as chemotherapy, cytotoxic and oncology drugs are used to treat cancer and non-cancer medical conditions. Before starting this kind of treatment, a thorough assessment of the patient is done to help prevent errors and minimize risk for complications and applies to all routes and classes of antineoplastic administration. This ONS Huddle Card™ covers the Pre- Administration Verification, an Administration Checklist and Post-Administration Considerations.
Review chemotherapy, an antineoplastic treatment modality. This card explores chemotherapy’s approach, examples as well as its benefits, limitations, and targets.
Refresh your knowledge on immunotherapy, an antineoplastic treatment modality. This card reviews immunotherapy, providing examples as well as its benefits, limitations, and targets.
Review this radiation therapy card in a group or individually to refresh your knowledge on this treatment modality. We include examples, benefits, limitations, and targets of this therapy.