Journal of Perioperative & Critical Intensive Care Nursing
Open Access
ISSN: 2471-9870
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ISSN: 2471-9870
+44-20-4587-4809
Short Communication - (2020)
Presently world is fighting through worldwide epidemic of coronavirus virus 2019 (COVID-19). At this period of indecision, oncologists are stressed toward deliver suitable maintenance to cancer patients. They have toward weigh danger and benefit of charitable cancer action vs chances of receiving them diseased by COVID-19. As cancer patients are immunocompromised and there are high probabilities of contact throughout hospital appointments and if they become diseased, consequence can be fatal. So, through the column of this manuscript, we would like toward deliver basic guideline in organization of cancer patients throughout COVID-19 epidemic. The world is presently aggressive against the deadly coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Globally, the number of people infected and with grave outcomes is increasing exponentially daily. During this time of pandemic, cancer patients are highly susceptible, as they are severely immunocompromised due to both their cancer and its treatment. Many of them are aged and visit medical facilities regularly, which further increases their chance of contact through infected people. Lengthways with this, hospitals are over capacity with COVID-19 patients and most outpatient services are closed to control disease transmission, so it is even extra problematic for cancer patients to seek appropriate medical care. This further enhances anxiety and confusion among cancer patients as they deal with the double blow of cancer and COVID-19. Along with cancer patients, oncologists are also facing challenges, as no one has experience with this novel disease and there remain many unrequited queries concerning suitable care of cancer patients. So, finished the column of this article, we would like to deliver basic guideline in management of cancer patients during this COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19, Cancer patients, Pandemic
In this new landscape, the cancer public is steering a problematic sequence amid several challenges: revisiting optimal standards of cancer care, facing persistently evolving shortages and acknowledging the paradoxical need to keep patients away from health care facilities. An ongoing contest is balancing the risk of charge to the infirmary through the conceivable risk of a SARS Cov 2 contagion, which has an expressive influence not solitary on patients, but too on medicinal operate. Clinicians are below penetrating compression and inspection throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, through oncology physicians predominantly worried, as they are opposite numerous moral quandaries, as well as physical separation from friends and domestic, augmented risk of illness broadcast, scientific tests and competing strains.
Oncology civilizations and nationwide establishments have remained quick toward issue guidelines on cancer care through the epidemic. The ordering in the distribution of growth therapies is powerfully prejudiced through together the greatness of possible action assistances and therapeutic determined, though patientlevel issues such as stage, comorbidities, and patient favourites have toward be cautious in the overall outline. Plans such as plummeting the number of scientific visits, margarine radiotherapy fractionation, changing venous to oral systemic therapy, and smooth stopping or plummeting the incidence of designated conservation actions have been applied in greatest of the oncology hospitals.
In answer towards tumor patients' augmented essential of effectual and cooperative message, also decorated through cancer patient collections, the sites of greatest cancer organizations have additional a frequently efficient question-and-answer COVID-19 unit, whilst communal television movements and media announcements offer extra stations toward spread out to patients. In specific, the usage of communal television might help overwhelmed certain barriers posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, as previous experience in cancer patients shows that social television use had an optimistic influence on psychosocial health consequences, e.g., larger communal provision systems were related through healthier prognosis afterward breast tumor action. More exactly, an education through Shim et al. originate that those who revealed individual insights around breast tumor in an online provision collection knowledgeable advanced fitness self-efficacy and expressive and useful well-being, while operators of a Twitter breast tumor provision collection also stated reduced anxiety after tweet chats.
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There are no conflicts of interest. Dr. Sanjay Kumar Dabhi is in the editorial board of the current journal.
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Citation: Patra SS. (2020). Emergency Care for Oncology Patients during Covid-19. Journal of Perioperative & Critical Intensive Care Nursing 6: S2 160. doi:10.35248/2471-9870.20.S2.160
Received: 04-Dec-2020 Accepted: 21-Dec-2020 Published: 30-Dec-2020 , DOI: 10.35248/2471-9870.20.S2.160
Copyright: © 2020 Patra SS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.