00:00Infections
00:04Infections, typically from bacteria or fungi,
00:08are the primary cause associated with death
00:11unfortunately in almost half of oncological patients.
00:14Some studies tell us that in oncological patients
00:17in intensive care, most of the infections
00:21are related to resistant antibiotic germs.
00:24This clinical situation not only impacts survival,
00:28but also the timing of treatments,
00:32in some cases delaying or preventing them from starting.
00:36This is why managing these clinical situations
00:40is of fundamental importance,
00:43especially if we take into account the progress
00:46we can make in oncology today.
00:48What we achieve with new drugs and new therapeutic options
00:52in terms of survival,
00:55To reduce the impact of infections
00:58by resistant antibiotic germs,
01:01there are some key words in oncological patients.
01:04The first is information.
01:06We must inform more and more.
01:09In this case, patient associations play a fundamental role.
01:13We must train, we must learn to collaborate
01:16with different specialists.
01:18Interaction between oncologists,
01:20infectiologists, microbiologists,
01:23and so on.
01:25Let's not forget the importance of vaccination programs
01:29that IOM has put in place,
01:31also indicating them in some guidelines,
01:34and that can somehow help contain the phenomenon.
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