The Status of Intensive Care Medicine Research and a Future Agenda for Very Old Patients in the ICU

The "very old intensive care patients" (abbreviated to VOPs; greater than 80 years old) are probably the fastest expanding subgroup of all intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Up until recently most ICU physicians have been reluctant to admit these VOPs. The general consensus was that there...

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Main Author: Flaatten, H (author)
Other Authors: de Lange, DW (author), Artigas, A (author), Bin, D (author), Moreno, R (author), Christensen, S (author), Joynt, GM (author), Bagshaw, SM (author), Sprung, CL (author), Benoit, D (author), Soares, M (author), Guidet, B (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
HSJ UCI
Age Factors
Biomedical Research
Cognitive Dysfunction/complications
Critical Care/organization & administration
Epidemiologic Studies
Frailty/complications
Hospital Mortality
Intensive Care Units/standards
Intensive Care Units/statistics & numerical data
Length of Stay
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Patient Admission/statistics & numerical data
Quality of Life
Severity of Illness Index
Triage/methods
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.17/2867
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.chlc.min-saude.pt:10400.17/2867

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