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Oncological Emergencies
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Course Details:
Audience: Clinical and Medical staff in A&E/MAU Band 5 +
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the role of acute oncology
- Identify patients at risk of neutropenic sepsis and metastatic spinal cord compression
- Describe the management of neutropenic sepsis and metastatic spinal cord compression
- Identify why treatment is urgent and when to refer to acute oncology
- Classify cancer of the unknown primary and metastatic malignancy of unknown origin
Resource details
| Contributed by: | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Licence: | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 02 April 2024 |
| First contributed: | 15 July 2022 |
| Audience access level: | Full user |
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