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Intensive Care Medicine
Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2003

01.12.2003 | Editorial

Optimizing outcomes for older patients treated in the intensive care unit

verfasst von: E. Wesley Ely

Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 12/2003

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Excerpt

Geriatric intensive care is already a very important aspect of our world's healthcare concerns, and it is growing exponentially. In this issue of Intensive Care Medicine, we are fortunate to learn from Somme et al. [1] about the outcomes of older patients (considered by most authors to include those 70–75 years and older) from a well-established critical care program in Paris, France. In this editorial, I will summarize what we have learned about the outcomes of older patients who receive intensive care and consider emerging frontiers both in the intensive care unit (ICU) and during recovery that are of particular importance to successful care of older ICU patients. …
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Metadaten
Titel
Optimizing outcomes for older patients treated in the intensive care unit
verfasst von
E. Wesley Ely
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2003
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Intensive Care Medicine / Ausgabe 12/2003
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-003-1845-5

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