Pocket Guide to Oncologic Emergencies

This essential book is a comprehensive yet practical handbook on oncologic emergencies containing the important and current information on treating cancer patients in acute care settings such as emergency and urgent care departments and centers. A concise and evidence-based guide, it is the go-to resource for any acute care medical practitioner treating cancer patients, demystifying the processes of evaluating, diagnosing, and managing emergencies that often arise in the cancer patient population. The first part of the book offers an overview of cancer, anti-cancer treatment and pain and palliative care in the emergency department. It then moves on to provide a systems-based approach covering neurologic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, respiratory, lymphatic system, and integumentary cancer complications. The book also discusses the side effects of cancer treatments such as pain, delirium, dyspnea, and immunotherapy related adverse events, and importantly helps to bridge the gap between oncologic advancements for emergency medicine specialists.

• Designed not only to be used in real-time to help practitioners with diagnosis, management, and treatment of oncologic emergencies but as a reference book on key oncologic emergencies for use in emergency medicine training.
• Captures and distils the most important advancements in the field of oncology and side effects of new treatments for acute care practitioners, who are not routinely update on such developments.
• Topics are laid out in outline format with key information presented in easy-to-read bullet points to allow for quick reading and comprehension of each section.