What is the importance of age on treatment of the elderly in the intensive care unit?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 698-703

  Brandberg, C ^a,c   Blomqvist, H ^a   Jirwe, M ^b  

^a ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGEISM; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL CARE; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84878825428     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aas.12073     Document Type: Article

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