From: Management and outcomes in critically ill nonagenarian versus octogenarian patients
nonagenarians | octogenarians | p-value | |
---|---|---|---|
n = 790 | n = 7110 | ||
Male sex n (%) | 339 (43%) | 3812 (54%) | < 0.001 |
Age | |||
median (±IQR) | 91 (90–93) | 83 (81–86) | < 0.001 |
Frailty Score - CFS | |||
median (±IQR) | 5 (4–6) | 4 (3–6) | < 0.001 |
Frailty (CFS > 4) n (%) | 454 (58) | 2962 (42) | < 0.001 |
ADL | |||
median (±IQR) | 5 (3–6) | 6 (4–6) | < 0.001 |
Disability (ADL ≤4) | 151 (44) | 805 (26) | < 0.001 |
IQCODE | |||
median (±IQR) | 3.5 (3–4) | 3.2 (3–4) | < 0.001 |
Cognitive Decline (IQCODE ≥3.5) | 149 (50) | 812 (31) | < 0.001 |
SOFA score | 6 (4–9) | 7 (4–10) | < 0.001 |
median (±IQR) | |||
ICU length of stay (hours) | |||
median (±IQR) | 84 (24–117) | 54 (37–186) | < 0.001 |
Treatment withdrawn and/or withheld (%) | 312 (40) | 2302 (33) | < 0.001 |
NIV n (%) | 168 (21) | 1794 (23) | 0.03 |
Intubation n (%) | 324 (41) | 3685 (52) | < 0.001 |
Renal replacement therapy n (%) | 33 (4) | 816 (12) | < 0.001 |
Vasoactive drugs n (%) | 414 (52) | 4179 (59) | 0.002 |
Admission diagnosis n (%) | < 0.001 | ||
Respiratory failure | 155 (20) | 1745 (23) | |
Circulatory failure | 136 (17) | 968 (14) | |
Combined circulatory & respiratory failure | 104 (13) | 825 (12) | |
Sepsis | 74 (9) | 966 (14) | |
Multitrauma w/o Head Injury | 23 (3) | 128 (2) | |
Trauma with Head Injury | 18 (2) | 124 (2) | |
Head Injury | 29 (4) | 166 (2) | |
Intoxication | 1 (< 1) | 36 (< 1) | |
Cerebral Injury (Non-Traumatic) | 38 (5) | 469 (7) | |
Emergency Surgery | 91 (12) | 817 (12) | |
Other | 91 (12) | 866 (12) |