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Triage of intensive care patients: identifying agreement and controversy

verfasst von: Charles L. Sprung, Marion Danis, Gaetano Iapichino, Antonio Artigas, Jozef Kesecioglu, Rui Moreno, Anne Lippert, J. Randall Curtis, Paula Meale, Simon L. Cohen, Mitchell M. Levy, Robert D. Truog

Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 11/2013

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Abstract

Rationale

Intensive care unit (ICU) resources are limited in many hospitals. Patients with little likelihood of surviving are often admitted to ICUs. Others who might benefit from ICU are not admitted.

Objective

To provide an updated consensus statement on the principles and recommendations for the triage of patients for ICU beds.

Design

The previous Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) consensus statement was used to develop drafts of general and specific principles and recommendations. Investigators and consultants were sent the statements and responded with their agreement or disagreement.

Setting

The Eldicus project (triage decision making for the elderly in European intensive care units).

Participants

Eldicus investigators, consultants, and experts consisting of intensivists, users of ICU services, ethicists, administrators, and public policy officials.

Interventions

Consensus development was used to grade the statements and recommendations.

Measurements and main results

Consensus was defined as 80 % agreement or more. Consensus was obtained for 54 (87 %) of 62 statements including all (19) general principles, 31 (86 %) of the specific principles, and 10 (71 %) of the recommendations. Inconsistencies in responses were noted for ICU admission and discharge. Despite agreement for guidelines applying to individual patients and an objective triage score, there was no agreement for a survival cutoff for triage, not even for a chance of survival of 0.1 %.

Conclusions

Consensus was reached for most general and specific ICU triage principles and recommendations. Further debate and discussion should help resolve the remaining discrepancies.

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Titel: Triage of intensive care patients: identifying agreement and controversy
verfasst von: Charles L. Sprung
Marion Danis
Gaetano Iapichino
Antonio Artigas
Jozef Kesecioglu
Rui Moreno
Anne Lippert
J. Randall Curtis
Paula Meale
Simon L. Cohen
Mitchell M. Levy
Robert D. Truog
Publikationsdatum: 01.11.2013
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine / Ausgabe 11/2013
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-013-3033-6

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