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The Very Elderly Admitted to ICU: A Quality Finish?

Daren Heyland1, Deborah Cook, Sean M Bagshaw

  • 11Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada. 2Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. 3Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. 4Division of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. 5Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 6Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 7Department of Critical Care Medicine, Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. 8Alberta Health Services-Calgary Zone, Calgary, AB, Canada. 9Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. 10Division of Critical Care Medicine and Center for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 11Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. 12Department of Critical Care Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada. 13Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Research Unit, CHU de Québec Research Center, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada. 14Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Critical Care Medicine
|April 23, 2015
PubMed
Summary

Critically ill elderly patients (80+) often receive prolonged life-sustaining treatments in the ICU, with one-third dying in hospital. These intensive interventions did not significantly alter outcomes or shorten the time to death for this vulnerable population.

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