Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025.; Background: As the population ages, the number of very elderly patients (≥ 90 years, nonagenarians) admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) is increasing. This trend raises concerns about the appropriateness of ICU care for this age group, especially due to the uncertainty surrounding their prognosis. Some studies suggest that elderly ICU patients have outcomes simila...
© 2024. The Author(s).; BACKGROUND: Premorbid conditions influence the outcome of acutely ill adult patients aged 80 years and over who are admitted to the ICU. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of such premorbid conditions on 6 month survival. METHODS: Prospective cohort study in 242 ICUs from 22 countries including patients 80 years or above, admitted over a 6 months period to an ICU betwee...
Funding Information: We acknowledge all members of the VIP community. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).; Introduction: Frailty is widely acknowledged as influencing health outcomes among critically ill old patients. Yet, the traditional understanding of its impact has predominantly been through frequentist statistics. We endeavored to explore this association using Bayesian statistics aiming to provid...
Background: Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been commonly used to treat acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19. In this study we aimed to compare outcomes of older critically ill patients treated with NIV before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We analysed a merged cohort of older adults admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) due to respiratory failure. Patients were enrolled into one of two pr...
During analysis of a prospective multinational observation study of critically ill patients ≥80 years of age, the VIP2 study, we also studied the effects of differences in country consent for study inclusion. This is a post hoc analysis where the ICUs were analyzed according to requirement for study consent. Group A: ICUs in countries with no requirement for consent at admission but with deferred consent in sur...
Funding Information: COVIP study did not have any funding. Publication of this article was funded by the Priority Research Area qLife under the program “Excellence Initiative – Research University” at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (06/IDUB/2019/94). Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).; Background: Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is a promising alternative to invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) w...
Funding Information: The full list of members of the COVIP study group can be found in the accompanying Supplementary Table 1. Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. No (industry) sponsorship has been received for this investigator-initiated study.; In Europe, tax-based healthcare systems (THS) and social health insurance systems (SHI) coexist. We examined differences in 30-day morta...
Funding: In addition, the study was supported by a grant from the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). EOSCsecretariat.eu has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Programme call H2020-INFRAEOSC-05-2018-2019, grant agreement number 831644. This work was supported by the Forschungskommission of the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, No. 2018-32 to G.W. and No. 2020-21 to R.R...
Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This study was endorsed by the ESICM. Free support for running the electronic database and was granted from the dep. of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Bruno et al. Annals of Intensive Care (2022) 12:26 Page 10 of 11 The support of the study in France by a grant from Fondation Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris pour la recherche is great...