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Wernly B, Bruno RR, Frutos-Vivar F, Peñuelas O, Rezar R, Raymondos K, Muriel A, Du B, Thille AW, Ríos F, González M, Del-Sorbo L, Marín MDC, Pinheiro BV, Soares MA, Nin N, Maggiore SM, Bersten A, Kelm M, Amin P, Cakar N, Young Suh G, Abroug F, Jibaja M, Matamis D, Zeggwagh AA, Sutherasan Y, Guidet B, De Lange DW, Beil M, Svri S, van Heerden V, Flaatten H, Anzueto A, Osmani V, Esteban A, Jung C. Propensity-Adjusted Comparison of Mortality of Elderly Versus Very Elderly Ventilated Patients. Respir Care 2021; 66:814-821. [PMID: 33653910 PMCID: PMC9994107 DOI: 10.4187/respcare.08547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The growing proportion of elderly intensive care patients constitutes a public health challenge. The benefit of critical care in these patients remains unclear. We compared outcomes in elderly versus very elderly subjects receiving mechanical ventilation. METHODS In total, 5,557 mechanically ventilated subjects were included in our post hoc retrospective analysis, a subgroup of the VENTILA study. We divided the cohort into 2 subgroups on the basis of age: very elderly subjects (age ≥ 80 y; n = 1,430), and elderly subjects (age 65-79 y; n = 4,127). A propensity score on being very elderly was calculated. Evaluation of associations with 28-d mortality was done with logistic regression analysis. RESULTS Very elderly subjects were clinically sicker as expressed by higher SAPS II scores (53 ± 18 vs 50 ± 18, P < .001), and their rates of plateau pressure < 30 cm H2O were higher, whereas other parameters did not differ. The 28-d mortality was higher in very elderly subjects (42% vs 34%, P < .001) and remained unchanged after propensity score adjustment (adjusted odds ratio 1.31 [95% CI 1.16-1.49], P < .001). CONCLUSIONS Age was an independent and unchangeable risk factor for death in mechanically ventilated subjects. However, survival rates of very elderly subjects were > 50%. Denial of critical care based solely on age is not justified. (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02731898.).
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Affiliation(s)
- Bernhard Wernly
- Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Hospital Universitario de Getafe & Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Getafe, Spain
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- Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Hospital Universitario de Getafe & Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Getafe, Spain
- Unidad de Bioestadística, Clinica Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigaciones Sanitarias & Centro de Investigación en Red de Opidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain
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- Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Hospital Nacional Alejandro Posadas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Clínica Medellín & Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, Hospital Regional 1 de Octubre, México City, México
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- Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Hospital Universitario de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, India
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- Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Center for Clinical Epidemiology, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Hospital de Especialidades Eugenio Espejo, Quito, Ecuador
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitarie, Ibn Sina - Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
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- Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, service de réanimation médicale, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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- South Texas Veterans Health Care System and University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
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- Fondazione Bruno Kessler Research Institute, Trento, Italy
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- Hospital Universitario de Getafe & Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Getafe, Spain
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- Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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