Chris F Duncan, Dagan O Lonsdale, Helen Farrah, Sarah Farnell-Ward, Christine Ryan, Ximena Watson, Maurizio Cecconi, Jesper Fjølner, Wojciech Szczeklik, Rui Moreno, Antonio Artigas, Michael Joannidis, Dylan W De Lange, Bertrand Guidet, Hans Flaatten, Christian Jung, Susannah Leaver
INTRODUCTION: Cases of major trauma in the very old (over 80 years) are increasingly common in the intensive care unit. Predicting outcome is challenging in this group of patients as chronological age is a poor marker of health and poor predictor of outcome. Increasingly, decisions are guided with the use of organ dysfunction scores of both the acute condition (e.g. Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score) and chronic health issues (e.g. clinical frailty scale, (CFS)). Recent work suggests that increased CFS is associated with a worse outcome in elderly major trauma patients...
February 22, 2024: Gerontology