Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Dec 2017
Multicenter Study Observational StudyThe prognostic importance of chronic end-stage diseases in geriatric patients admitted to 163 Italian ICUs.
The number of elderly patients undergoing major surgical interventions and then needing admission to intensive care unit (ICU) grows steadily. We investigated this issue in a cohort of 232,278 patients admitted in five years (2011-2015) to 163 Italian general ICUs. ⋯ Our study confirms that elderly surgical patients represent a relevant part of all ICUs admissions. About one of seven bear at least one severe chronic comorbidity, that, excluding end-stage renal disease, are all strong independent predictors of hospital death.