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Manual for Night-Time Emergencies for Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellows: Should We Chat? book cover

1st Edition

Manual for Night-Time Emergencies for Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellows Should We Chat?

Edited By Julie Blatt, April Evans, Jessica Benjamin-Eze Copyright 2025
162 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

162 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

162 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press
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Being on call as a pediatric resident or a pediatric hematology-oncology fellow can cause great anxiety. In addition to the relatively common patient with chemotherapy-related fever and neutropenia, there is the anticipation of problems that a trainee may have read about but not yet actually seen - the adolescent newly presenting with a white blood cell count of 600,000/mm3, the 2 year old... Read more

Preface. List of contributors. Acknowledgments. List of abbreviations

I. Oncology

1. High White Blood Cell (WBC) Count. 2. Mediastinal Mass/ Superior Vena Cava (SVC) Syndrome. 3. Spinal/Paraspinal Mass. 4. Massive Hepatomegaly. 5. Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS)/Metabolic Abnormalities. 6. Differentiation Syndrome or Retinoic Acid Syndrome. 7. Fever in High-Risk Populations. 8. Typhlitis. 9. Methotrexate Toxicity. 10. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES).

II. Hematology

11. Severe Anemia. 12. Hemolytic Anemia. 13. Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TMA). 14. Transfusion Emergencies. 15. Sickle Cell Emergencies. 16. ACS in SCD. 17. Aplastic crisis in SCD. 18. Hemolytic crisis in SCD. 19. Pain/Vascoocclusive crisis. 20. Priapism in SCD. 21. Splenic sequestration. 22. Stroke/TIA in SCD. 23. Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT)/Central Venous Thrombosis. 24. Pulmonary Embolus (PE). 25. Arterial Thrombosis. 26. Arterial (Acute Ischemic) Stroke. 27. Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT). 28. Bleeding Emergencies. 29. Thrombocytopenia with/without Bleeding. 30. Hemophilia. 31. Von Willebrand Disease. 32. Vitamin K Deficiency. 33. Other Factor Deficiencies. 34. Neonatal Hematologic Emergencies. 35. Covid and Hematologic Emergencies. 36. Hemophagocytic Lympho-Histiocytosis (HLH).

III. Vascular Anomalies

37. Pain . 38. Cellulitis vs inflammation. 39. Effusions with/without organ failure. 40. Pulmonary Embolus in vascular anomalies. 41. Kasabach-Merritt Phenomenon.                   

IV. General                        

42. Managing Symptoms at the End of Life. 43. What to do when a patient dies. 44. What ChatGPT says: Postscript.

Index.

Biography

Julie Blatt, M.D., Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UNC Hospitals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem, USA. She is a member of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology’s Vascular Anomalies Special Interest Group, where she chairs the Practice Work Group, and of the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies.

April Evans, M.D, M.P.H., Department of Hematology-Oncology, Roger Maris Cancer Center, Fargo, North Dakota, USA.

Jessica Benjamin-Eze, D.O.., Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem, USA.

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