[Lung cancer: Prognosis in intensive care depends mainly on the acute complication].

CONCLUSION: In this population of lung cancer patients admitted into ICU, independent predictors of hospital mortality are determined by the physiological perturbations induced by the acute presenting complication. After recovery from this, prognosis is again determined by the characteristics of the underlying cancer. PMID: 30898468 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue des Maladies Respiratoires - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Rev Mal Respir Source Type: research