{"pk":11515,"title":"Diagnosis and Management of Oncologic Emergencies","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Oncologic emergencies may be seen in any emergency department and will become more frequent as our population ages and more patients receive chemotherapy. Life-saving interventions are available for certain oncologic emergencies if the diagnosis is made in a timely fashion. In this article we will cover neutropenic fever, tumor lysis syndrome, hypercalcemia of malignancy, and hyperviscosity syndrome. After reading this article the reader should be much more confident in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of these oncologic emergencies.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"oncologic emergency, malignancy"}],"section":"Health Outcomes","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3x84z2bq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sarah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Klemencic","name_suffix":"","institution":"Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Roanoke, Virginia","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jack","middle_name":"","last_name":"Perkins","name_suffix":"","institution":"Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Roanoke, Virginia","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-12-19T16:46:32Z","date_accepted":"2017-12-19T16:46:32Z","date_published":"2019-02-14T20:34:27Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/11515/galley/6212/download/"}]}