Protecting the Skin of the Elderly Patient in the Intensive Care Unit

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary L. Shannon ◽  
Cheryl A. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Elderly Patient ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
The Elderly

Peri-Operative Considerations of Dementia, Delirium, and Cognitive Decline

2019 ◽  
pp. 297-302
Author(s):  
Phillip E. Vlisides ◽  
Zhongcong Xie
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction ◽  
Cognitive Disorders ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Surgical Patients ◽  
Anaesthetic Agents ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The Many

As the elderly population increases, so will the number of surgical patients with dementia and other cognitive disorders. Laboratory evidence suggests that some commonly used anaesthetic agents may accelerate the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) process, but robust clinical research is still needed. This chapter discusses the need for peri-operative guidelines for patients with dementia, and the many opportunities for further research to inform such guidelines. It also covers postoperative delirium and its association with longer hospital and intensive care unit stays, cognitive decline after surgery, and higher mortality. Finally, it covers postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD), how standardized definitions and study methodology are lacking, and that studying cognitive trajectory after anaesthesia and surgery is often confounded by various clinical elements that cannot be accounted for methodologically.

scholarly journals Admitting an elderly patient with solid tumor in the intensive care unit: what do we have to look for?

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 4141-4142
Author(s):  
Carmen Silvia Valente Barbas ◽  
Ellen Pierre de Oliveira ◽  
João Valente Barbas Filho
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Elderly Patient ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Solid Tumor

Limitation of life-sustaining treatment in severe trauma in the elderly after admission to an intensive care unit

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 394-400
Author(s):  
Y. Peñasco ◽  
A. González-Castro ◽  
J.C. Rodríguez Borregán ◽  
M. Ortiz-Lasa ◽  
R. Jáuregui Solórzano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Severe Trauma ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment
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