Oncologic patients comprise a consistent if not significant portion of surgical patients. Many of these patients will have undergone perioperative treatment for their diseases by means of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of the two. With regard to the chemotherapeutic agents, specific preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthetic considerations must be taken when providing care to this special subset of surgical patients.
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Warrick, A. B., Gritsenko, K., & Aquino, M. (2015). Chemotherapeutic agents. In Essentials of Pharmacology for Anesthesia, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care (pp. 503–523). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8948-1_31
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