The incidence of cancer is increasing in line with our ageing population, with a greater number of patients requiring ICU admission for support managing complications of their malignancy, it’s therapy, or conditions unrelated to their underlying cancer. Despite these indications, the presence of a cancer diagnosis has been a common reason for refusal of ICU admission, or admission with treatment limitations.
This session will present the current epidemiology, characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Units with cancer, and will describe the change in these outcomes across the last 17 years. Results will be reported for the most common malignancies admitted to ANZ intensive care units, common treatments and complications of malignancy will be reviewed and an agenda for further outcomes research in ICU malignancy will be proposed, with demonstration of early work in the analysis of outcomes relating to specific types of malignancy.
