ReviewAnnals of intensive care2018
Caring for the critically ill patients over 80: a narrative review.
Review in Annals of intensive care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cellular senescence in acute human infectious disease: a systematic review.Frontiers in aging · 2024Pooled it
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- Predictive value of the clinical frailty scale for intensive care unit mortality in elderly and very elderly patients: a prospective cohort study.BMC anesthesiology · 2026Article
- Predicting Cardiovascular Collapse in Critically Ill Patients During Intubation Induction: A Prospective Observational Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- Characterizing ICU-like profiles of very old patients hospitalized in medical intermediate care units in France: A clustering analysis of a nationwide population-based study.Annals of intensive care · 2026Article
- The FRAIL scale independently predicts 28-day mortality in critically ill older adults: a prospective comparison with the Clinical Frailty Scale.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- The Impact of Frailty on Functional Outcome in Neurointensive Care Patients.European journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Characteristics, Outcomes and Recovery of Patients 65 Years or Older Admitted to Swedish Intensive Care Units: A Protocol for a Longitudinal Observational Multicentre Study.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- The relationship between caregiving burden and hospital anxiety and depression in relatives of elderly patients transferred from intensive care unit to the ward.BMC nursing · 2025Article
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- Nursing Program Promoting the Activity of Daily Living Among Older Adults Admitted to Semimedical Intensive Care Units: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Nursing research and practice · 2025Article
- Critical Care Challenges and Mortality Predictors in Older Adults: A Comprehensive Cohort Analysis.Cureus · 2024Article
- Baseline functional status impairment as a factor predictive of a poor benefit of ICU admission in patients aged over 80 years with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection: The frailty-ICU-elderly-COVID (FRICE-CoV) study.European journal of anaesthesiology and intensive care · 2024Article
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- The critically ill older patient with sepsis: a narrative review.Annals of intensive care · 2024Review
- Evaluating Prognostic Bias of Critical Illness Severity Scores Based on Age, Sex, and Primary Language in the United States: A Retrospective Multicenter Study.Critical care explorations · 2024Article
- Predictors of outcomes of patients ≥ 80 years old admitted to intensive care units in Poland - a post-hoc analysis of the VIP2 prospective observational study.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2024Observational
- Limiting life-sustaining treatment for very old ICU patients: cultural challenges and diverse practices.Annals of intensive care · 2023Article
- A scoping review of older patients' health-related quality of life, recovery and well-being after intensive care.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Unmet Needs in Geriatric Oncology.South Asian journal of cancer · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundThere is currently no international recommendation for the admission or treatment of the critically ill older patients over 80 years of age in the intensive care unit (ICU), and there is no valid prognostic severity score that includes specific geriatric assessments. MAIN BODY: In this review, we report recent literature focusing on older critically ill patients in order to help physicians in the multiple-step decision-making process. It is unclear under what conditions older patients may benefit from ICU admission. Consequently, there is a wide variation in triage practices, treatment intensity levels, end-of-life practices, discharge practices and frequency of geriatrician's involvement among institutions and clinicians. In this review, we discuss important steps in caring for critically ill older patients, from the triage to long-term outcome, with a focus on specific conditions in the very old patients.
conclusionAccording to previous considerations, we provide an algorithm presented as a guide to aid in the decision-making process for the caring of the critically ill older patients.
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