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Vargas N, Tibullo L, Landi E, Carifi G, Pirone A, Pippo A, Alviggi I, Tizzano R, Salsano E, Di Grezia F, Vargas M. Caring for critically ill oldest old patients: a clinical review. Aging Clin Exp Res 2017; 29:833-845. [PMID: 27761759 DOI: 10.1007/s40520-016-0638-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 09/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Despite technological advances, the mortality rate for critically ill oldest old patients remains high. The intensive caring should be able to combine technology and a deep humanity considering that the patients are living the last part of their lives. In addition to the traditional goals of ICU of reducing morbidity and mortality, of maintaining organ functions and restoring health, caring for seriously oldest old patients should take into account their end-of-life preferences, the advance or proxy directives if available, the prognosis, the communication, their life expectancy and the impact of multimorbidity. The aim of this review was to focus on all these aspects with an emphasis on some intensive procedures such as mechanical ventilation, noninvasive mechanical ventilation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, renal replacement therapy, hemodynamic support, evaluation of delirium and malnutrition in this heterogeneous frail ICU population.
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- Nicola Vargas
- Geriatric and Intensive Geriatric Care Ward, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy.
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- Medicine Ward, Medicine Department, "San Giuseppe Moscati" Hospital, via Gramsci, 81031, Aversa, CE, Italy
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- Geriatric and Intensive Geriatric Care Ward, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy
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- Geriatric and Intensive Geriatric Care Ward, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy
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- Clinical Nutrition and Dietology Unit, Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy
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- Geriatric and Intensive Geriatric Care Ward, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy
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- Geriatric and Intensive Geriatric Care Ward, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy
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- Geriatric and Intensive Geriatric Care Ward, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Disease and Internal Medicine, Federico II University of Naples, via Pansini, 80121, Naples, Italy
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- Geriatric and Intensive Geriatric Care Ward, Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità "San Giuseppe Moscati", via Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience and Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II, Via Pansini, 89121, Naples, Italy
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Nayeri A, Bhatia N, Holmes B, Borges N, Young MN, Wells QS, McPherson JA. Pre-existing medical comorbidity is not associated with neurological outcomes in patients undergoing targeted temperature management following cardiac arrest. Heart Vessels 2017; 32:1358-1363. [DOI: 10.1007/s00380-017-1005-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2017] [Accepted: 06/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Howes D, Gray SH, Brooks SC, Boyd JG, Djogovic D, Golan E, Green RS, Jacka MJ, Sinuff T, Chaplin T, Smith OM, Owen J, Szulewski A, Murphy L, Irvine S, Jichici D, Muscedere J. Canadian Guidelines for the use of targeted temperature management (therapeutic hypothermia) after cardiac arrest: A joint statement from The Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS), Canadian Neurocritical Care Society (CNCCS), and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG). Resuscitation 2015; 98:48-63. [PMID: 26417702 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.07.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2015] [Revised: 07/25/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Daniel Howes
- Department of Emergency Medicine Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
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- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, and the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Rescu, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Division of Neurology Department of Medicine Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care and Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Critical Care Medicine and Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Critical Care Department, Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michaels Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Neurology and Critical Care Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Winther-Jensen M, Pellis T, Kuiper M, Koopmans M, Hassager C, Nielsen N, Wetterslev J, Cronberg T, Erlinge D, Friberg H, Gasche Y, Horn J, Hovdenes J, Stammet P, Wanscher M, Wise MP, Åneman A, Kjaergaard J. Mortality and neurological outcome in the elderly after target temperature management for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2015; 91:92-8. [PMID: 25597506 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Revised: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 12/22/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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AIM To assess older age as a prognostic factor in patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital-cardiac arrest (OHCA) and the interaction between age and level of target temperature management. METHODS AND RESULTS 950 patients included in the target temperature management (TTM) trial were randomly allocated to TTM at 33 or 36 °C for 24h. We assessed survival and cerebral outcome (cerebral performance category, CPC and modified Rankin scale, mRS) using age as predictor, dividing patients into 5 age groups: ≤ 65 (median), 66-70, 71-75, 76-80 and >80 years of age. Shockable rhythm decreased with higher age groups, p = 0.001, the same was true for ST segment elevation on ECG at admission, p < 0.01. Increasing age was associated with a higher mortality rate (HR = 1.04 per year, 95% CI = 1.03-1.06, p < 0.001) after adjusting for confounders. Octogenarians had an increased mortality (HR = 3.5, CI: 2.5-5.0, p < 0.001) compared to patients ≤ 65 years of age. Favorable vs. unfavorable outcome measured by CPC and mRS in survivors was different between age groups with adverse outcomes more prevalent in higher age groups (CPC: p = 0.04, mRS: p = 0.001). The interaction between age and target temperature allocation was not statistically significant for either mortality or neurological outcome. CONCLUSION Increasing age is associated with significantly increased mortality after OHCA, but mortality rate is not influenced by level of target temperature. Risk of poor neurological outcome also increases with age, but is not modified by level of target temperature.
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- Department of Intensive Care, Santa Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
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- Department of Intensive Care, Leeuwarden Medical Centrum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Intensive Care, Leeuwarden Medical Centrum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden
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- Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre of Clinical Intervention Research, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Neurology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Cardiology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Intensive Care, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Intensive Care, Academic Medical Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Intensive Care, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Intensive Care, Liverpool hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lindner TW, Langørgen J, Sunde K, Larsen AI, Kvaløy JT, Heltne JK, Draegni T, Søreide E. Factors predicting the use of therapeutic hypothermia and survival in unconscious out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients admitted to the ICU. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2013; 17:R147. [PMID: 23880105 PMCID: PMC4057368 DOI: 10.1186/cc12826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) was adopted early in Norway. Since 2004 the general recommendation has been to cool all unconscious OHCA patients treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), but the decision to cool individual patients was left to the responsible physician. We assessed factors that were associated with use of TH and predicted survival. METHOD We conducted a retrospective observational study of prospectively collected cardiac arrest and ICU registry data from 2004 to 2008 at three university hospitals. RESULTS A total of 715 unconscious patients older than 18 years of age, who suffered OHCA of both cardiac and non-cardiac causes, were included. With an overall TH use of 70%, the survival to discharge was 42%, with 90% of the survivors having a favourable cerebral outcome. Known positive prognostic factors such as witnessed arrest, bystander cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), shockable rhythm and cardiac origin were all positive predictors of TH use and survival. On the other side, increasing age predicted a lower utilisation of TH: Odds Ratio (OR), 0.96 (95% CI, 0.94 to 0.97); as well as a lower survival: OR 0.96 (95% CI, 0.94 to 0.97). Female gender was also associated with a lower use of TH: OR 0.65 (95% CI, 0.43 to 0.97); and a poorer survival: OR 0.57 (95% CI, 0.36 to 0.92). After correcting for other prognostic factors, use of TH remained an independent predictor of improved survival with OR 1.91 (95% CI 1.18-3.06; P <0.001). Analysing subgroups divided after initial rhythm, these effects remained unchanged for patients with shockable rhythm, but not for patients with non-shockable rhythm where use of TH and female gender lost their predictive value. CONCLUSIONS Although TH was used in the majority of unconscious OHCA patients admitted to the ICU, actual use varied significantly between subgroups. Increasing age predicted both a decreased utilisation of TH as well as lower survival. Further, in patients with a shockable rhythm female gender predicted both a lower use of TH and poorer survival. Our results indicate an underutilisation of TH in some subgroups. Hence, more research on factors affecting TH use and the associated outcomes in subgroups of post-resuscitation patients is needed.
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Lyden PD. Too old for cold? Editorial commentary on Busch and Søreide, 2011. Ther Hypothermia Temp Manag 2012; 2:51-2. [PMID: 24717159 DOI: 10.1089/ther.2012.1510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Patrick D Lyden
- Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center , Los Angeles, California
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