Full Description
This book covers the diverse complications noted in medical, radiation, surgical and pediatric oncology. The various chapters target the common complications that the clinicians encompass in the practice day in and day out. It assists in identifying/ stratification the patients at higher risk of complications so that they may be offered alternative options or get a de-intensified treatment. It also covers the determinants/predictors-clinical alarm signs or the safety flags associated with specific high-risk procedures. The chapters are designed to offer a preventive strategy to reduce the incidence of complications, such as the early introduction of corrective measures, supportive care measures, and refining the procedure in case of anticipated risk of certain complications. The manual addresses the management strategies of complications and will propose a formulation of treatment policies as per the severity of the disease. Manual includes discussion on evidence-based treatment strategies and recent advances in management. It consists of a summarized algorithm on leadership based on guidelines (if available). Since it is a multimodality approach-based book, it is an exciting read to the students and the practitioners of medical, surgical, radiation, and nursing. It addresses the disclosure of complications and the medicolegally correct way of taking consent for complications.
Contents
Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy induced Thrombocytopenia.- Radiation Proctitis after radiation therapy for pelvic malignancies.- Radiation enteritis in patients receiving upper abdominal radiation therapy.- Radiation induced liver disease in patients receiving radiation for hepatobiliary tumours.- Managing Hyperemesis in the era of concurrent or sequential chemoradiation.- Complications of Intravesical Therapy for early bladder tumours.- Predictors and treatment of Platinum induced nephrotoxicity.- Radiation Cystitis after pelvic radiation in survivors of pelvic malignancies.- Pelvic insufficiency syndrome after pelvic radiation encountered after treatment of gynaecological malignancies.- Radiation induced Xerostomia in patient receiving radical radiation therapy to the face and neck.
