Feras Hawari
King Hussein Center, Jordan
Title: Critical Care Oncology: designs, predictors and outcomes
Biography
Biography: Feras Hawari
Abstract
The prevalence of cancer is expected to rise in our region and worldwide. As living conditions continue to improve including nutrition and advanced medical care life expectancy is will to improve. This in return will be associated with higher numbers of new cancer cases. Significant numbers of cancer patients will require the care of intensive care services throughout the course of their disease and treatment. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy as well as disease complication and progression increase the probabilities of patients visiting the ICU. Critical care beds in any hospital are limited and care is expensive. A significant portion of any hospital budget is dedicated for this continuously advanced and costly care. Designing the ICU to provide optimum and feasible care is of paramount importance. In addition characterizing patients admitted to the ICU and knowing their predictors of admission and short as well as long-term outcomes would help better direct the care of these patients and how best to preempt their admission to the ICU, a factor that adversely affect their survival.