by Raphael Romano Bruno, Bernhard Wernly, Hans Flaatten,
Fabian Schölzel, Malte Kelm and Christian Jung
The identification of patients with frailty is of utmost
importance, in particular during intensive care treatment of very old intensive
care patients (VOPs). It is quite obvious that tools for this triage process
should differ from younger patients. Frailty—not necessarily age—is associated
with a negative impact on outcome, especially in critically ill patients [1].
This problem is of great importance as VOPs are one of the fastest growing
subgroups in intensive care medicine. We expect an increase in the proportion
of the world population older than 60 years from 12% in 2013 to 21% in 2050 [2]…
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