Outcome of critically ill patients receiving systemic chemotherapy on the intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Analyze the outcomes of critically ill patients who developed new-onset organ dysfunction and received systemic chemotherapy during their ICU stay.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

A tertiary medical center in Germany with an Intensive Care Medicine department consists of 11 intensive care units comprising 140 beds, serving all subspecialties of adult intensive care medicine.

Patients

167 patients receiving systemic oncological treatment from January 1st, 2015 to December 31st, 2021, with a data cut-off on December 31st, 2022.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

A total of 167 patients were included. The primary reasons for ICU admission were respiratory failure and shock/sepsis, each accounting for 34% of cases,

SUBMITTER: Karagiannis P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11743169 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature