ArticleJournal of critical care2020
The wave of very old people in the intensive care unit-A challenge in decision-making.
Article in Journal of critical care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Proposing a novel ABCDEF framework for managing critical illness in geriatrics: challenges and perspectives.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Intensive care of the very old - questioning the relationship between illness severity and the moral imperative to deliver life-saving care.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2025Article
- 'I am old, and I will rather abandon life with my eyes open': a qualitative study of Norwegians aged 80 and older explaining their intensive care unit admission preferences.Age and ageing · 2025Article
- GRACE-ICU: A multimodal nomogram-based approach for illness severity assessment of older adults in the ICU.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Differences in directives to limit treatment and discontinue mechanical ventilation between elderly and very elderly patients: a substudy of a multinational observational study.Intensive care medicine · 2023Observational
- A scoping review of older patients' health-related quality of life, recovery and well-being after intensive care.Nursing open · 2023Article
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- A new multi-national network studying Very old Intensive care Patients (VIPs).Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2021Article
- ICU-Mortality in Old and Very Old Patients Suffering From Sepsis and Septic Shock.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Dynamic SOFA score assessments to predict outcomes after acute admission of octogenarians to the intensive care unit.PloS one · 2021Observational
- The Mapping of Influencing Factors in the Decision-Making of End-of-Life Care Patients: A Systematic Scoping Review.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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11 authors at 8 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
In this paper the authors express the opinion that there is much to be learned about the 80+ year old age group as it relates to critical care and end-of-life matters. We need to learn how to better predict outcome, we need to learn our limitations and deal with uncertainties, we need to better communicate with our elderly patients and their caregivers and we need to engage with our colleagues in Geriatrics. There is a wave of very old people arriving in the intensive care unit and we have much to do to prepare for it and for the ethical, fair and appropriate care of these critically ill, but elderly, patients.
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