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Abstract
Background: The world’s population is aging, the proportion of older patients admitted to the ICU is increasing, the elderly experience many complications during their ICU admission, some of these complications are associated with adverse outcomes.
Aim: To analyze the profile of critically ill elderly patients who will be admitted to the Geriatrics Intensive Care Unit, and its relation to the outcome.
Subjects and Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study for 120 elderly ICU patients over a period of 6 months in Geriatrics ICU, Ain Shams University hospitals.
Results: Older elderly patients are associated with higher mortality than younger elderly patients (76.47% Vs 53.49%), as well as higher mean length of ICU stay (12.2±9.6 Vs 11.4±7.8), and SOFA sore (7.0±3.4 Vs 5.5±3.3), Non-survivors had a higher length of ICU stay than survivors (13.6±9.4 Vs 8.6±5.4) and a higher incidence of organ failure (100% Vs 75%).
Conclusions: The older elderly patients had higher charlson comorbidity index, SOFA score, as well as higher APACHE II mean score in comparison to younger elderly patients, higher mean scores of charlson comorbidity index, SOFA score, and APACHE II are associated with mortality among ICU elderly patients.