We report on intensive care nosocomial pneumonia (NP) in Europe through a review of EU-
VAP/CAP manuscripts: a prospective observational study, enrolling patients from 27 ICUs in …

Delirium is a neurobehavioral syndrome caused by dysregulation of neuronal activity
secondary to systemic disturbances. Over time, a number of theories have been proposed in …

The “very old intensive care patients”(abbreviated to VOPs; greater than 80 years old) are
probably the fastest expanding subgroup of all intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Up until …

The global population of multimorbid older people is growing steadily. Multimorbidity is the
principal cause of complex polypharmacy, which in turn is the prime risk factor for …

Objective: Survivors of critical illness are frequently left with long-lasting disability. The
association between delirium and disability in critically ill patients has not been described …

Purpose Increasingly, very old patients are admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The
objective of this study was to describe 12-month outcomes of these patients and determine …

Purpose The effect of advanced age per se versus severity of chronic and acute diseases on
the short-and long-term survival of older patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) …

Background There is currently no international recommendation for the admission or
treatment of the critically ill older patients over 80 years of age in the intensive care unit …

Purpose To document and analyse the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining
treatment (LST) in a population of very old patients admitted to the ICU. Methods This …

Objective: We investigated the epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in elderly
ICU patients. More precisely, we assessed prevalence, risk factors, signs and symptoms …