In early 2020, a number of countries developed and published intensive care triage
guidelines for the pandemic. Several of those guidelines, especially in the UK, encouraged …

No one may be refused emergency medical treatment in South Africa (SA). Yet score-based
categorical exclusions used in critical care triage guidelines disproportionately discriminate …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is disproportionately affecting
older people and those with underlying comorbidities. Guidelines are needed to help …

The unprecedented and unfolding global situation with Coronavirus (the virus SaRS Cov-2,
leading to the disease named COVID-19)(WHO, 2020) has forced health care providers …

Introduction Predictions of the need for critical care within the H1N1 influenza pandemic
suggested overwhelming need beyond potential resources, necessitating rationing of care …

Background For healthcare systems, an ageing population poses challenges in the delivery
of equitable and effective care. Frailty assessment has the potential to improve care in the …

Frailty has become a condition we as intensivists have been gradually more familiar with.
Geriatricians have developed the concept and it includes several age-related changes …

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic there was widespread concern that healthcare systems
would be overwhelmed, and specifically, that there would be insufficient critical care …

Background Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in critical illness. However, it is unclear
whether frailty screening on admission to the ICU can be conducted routinely at the …

We read with interest the recent editorial examining the relationship between geriatric
syndromes and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause …