Abstract
4/2021
vol. 53
Editorial
A new multi-national network studying very old intensive care patients
- Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Medical Intensive Care, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Service de Reanimation, Hopital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
- Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Adult Critical Care, St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Intensive Care, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- Center for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Anestezjologia Intensywna Terapia 2021; 53, 4: 290–295
Online publish date: 2021/12/22
In Europe there are increasing numbers of old (more than 65 years old) and very old (more than 80 years old) patients (very old intensive care patients – VIPs) (Figure 1). In addition to combinations of chronic conditions (multi-morbidity), there are geriatric disabilities and functional limitations, with a profound impact on management in the ICU and afterwards [1].