Intensive care of the cancer patient: recent achievements and remaining challenges

Annals of Intensive Care

Table 2 Recent ICU advances in the management of critically ill cancer patients

1. Less restrictive admission policies [17]
2. Use of noninvasive mechanical ventilation [23, 48, 49]
3. Diagnostic strategy in acute respiratory failure [40, 47, 50, 60]
4. Prevention of tumor lysis syndrome [12, 58, 59]
5. Management of acute kidney injury [37–39]
6. Advances in antifungal agents [102]
7. Transfusion policies [103]
8. Recognizing drug-related organ toxicities [104–106]
9. Understanding organ dysfunction in macrophage activation syndrome [14]
10. Diagnostic strategy in neurological involvement [107]