Critically ill octogenarians and nonagenarians: evaluation of long-term outcomes, post-hospital trajectories and quality of life one year and seven years after ICU discharge.

CONCLUSIONS: Most critically ill long-term elderly survivors lived at home, perceived their QOL as acceptable, and wanted to be readmitted to the ICU if necessarily. In older patients, age alone is a poor indicator of the possible value to be gained from an ICU admission. PMID: 27901330 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Anestesiologica - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Minerva Anestesiol Source Type: research