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Podcast: PeerView Internal Medicine CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast
Episode: Christopher Baugh, MD, MBA & Mark M. Awad, MD, PhD - Maintaining Vigilance to Mitigate Cancer Immunotherapy-Related Toxicities in the Emergency Department: Be Aware, Stay Alert, and Change Your Practice
Description: Go online to PeerView.com/KKF860 to view the activity, download slides and practice aids, and complete the post-test to earn credit. Patients with cancer often present to the ED in an acutely ill state with complications from their cancer or treatments used, but a broadening use of a new class of cancer immunotherapies has changed the types of complications experienced by these patients. This spectrum of unique toxicities, termed immune-related adverse events (irAEs), is less well known, and commonly, they are overlooked, misdiagnosed, and not appropriately managed in ED settings. Standard algorithms for diagnosis and treatment no longer apply...