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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: EOLC part 2: Oncological Emergencies with Merel and Caroline Philips
Description: In end of life care we are mindful of respecting patient’s wishes, including those relating to conveyance to acute care settings. However there are some presentations, specifically in relation to cancer, which we need to be aware of and rapidly refer onto either acute or specialist colleagues.
In this episode we explore these reversible oncological emergencies based on cases seen in Merel’s clinical experience as a Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist in a specialist cancer centre in The Netherlands.
We review Neutropenic Sepsis, Superior Vena Cava Obstruction, Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression and Hypercalcaemia.
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