Geriatric intensive-care unit
Topic: Medicine
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Geriatric intensive care unit is a special intensive care unit dedicated to management of critically ill elderly.
Origin
Geriatric intensive care units began because the world population is aging. Geriatric medicine is distinct from adult or pediatric medicine, especially if they are critically ill. Geriatric medicine was not included in the curricula of undergraduate or advanced medical training until recently, so not all critical care physicians are oriented to the specific needs of geriatric patients. Despite the fact that many critically ill patients are older, the training of critical care teams still lacks a geriatric focus.[1][2][3][4]
Older adults admitted to intensive care units can suffer from severe infections, such as MRSA or systemic fungal infections,[5] and may need special post-operative analgesia.[6] People age 75+ may need assessment by special instruments to predict their ICU prognosis.[7] One quotation has said "geriatric ICUs are the future".[8]
World distribution
Geriatric care units are present in Japan,[9] United States, China,[10][11][12] Egypt, Europe[13] France,[14] Italy,[15][16] Iran,[17] and India.[18][19][20]
Training & education programs
Physicians are trained in geriatric medicine & critical care medicine.[21][22][23]
Nurses receive special training in critical care of elderly in their basic training, advanced and clinical training.[24][25][26]
Ventilators
A geriatric ventilator is a machine that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a geriatric patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently.
Open-source ventilators
A geriatric open-source ventilator uses open-source hardware. They are valorated in COVID-19 pandemic.
See also
- Geriatrics
- Intensive care unit
- Open-source hardware
- Ventilator
References
- ↑ Fisher, Malcolm (June 1993). "Geriatric intensive care" (in en-US). Critical Care Medicine 21 (6): 823. doi:10.1097/00003246-199306000-00006. ISSN 0090-3493. PMID 8504647.
- ↑ The Geriatric Patient in The Intensive Care Unit, Cuba
- ↑ RELATION BETWEEN ELDERLY AND INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, Turkey
- ↑ Neuroscience ICU[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ Invasive mycosis in the Elderly – an appraisal on an geriatric intensive care unit[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ postoperative analgesia for geriatric intensive care patients
- ↑ Geriatric Intensive Care Unit, Peking University, China
- ↑ The geriatric intensive care unit - Dr Eryl Davies: geriatric ICUs are the future
- ↑ Dojin Hospital’s geriatric intensive care unit, Japan
- ↑ Geriatric Intensive Care Unit, Peking University, China
- ↑ Geriatric Intensive Care Unit, Nanjing, China
- ↑ Zeng, A; Song, X; Dong, J; Mitnitski, A; Liu, J; Guo, Z; Rockwood, K (2015). "Mortality in Relation to Frailty in Patients Admitted to a Specialized Geriatric Intensive Care Unit". J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 70 (12): 1586–94. doi:10.1093/gerona/glv084. PMID 26400736.
- ↑ 4 beds geriatric intensive care unit in France
- ↑ Invasive mycosis in the Elderly – an appraisal on an geriatric intensive care unit[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ "New treatments in Geriatric Intensive Care Ward of the University Hospital in Florence, Italy". http://www.schiller.ch/docudb/psfile/doc/56/MB_Cansell42d77d0b37b53.pdf.
- ↑ Fumagalli, Stefano (2002). "Does Advanced Age Affect the Immediate and Long-Term Results of Direct-Current External Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation?". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 50 (7): 1192–1197. doi:10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50304.x. PMID 12133012.
- ↑ Permanent Geriatric Intensive Care, Poland
- ↑ Geriatric Intensive Care Unit, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- ↑ Geriatric intensive-care unit (GICU) at Kumar Hospital, Jabalpur
- ↑ The New Indian Express
- ↑ Geriatric intensive care (1993) article
- ↑ The Geriatric Patient in The Intensive Care Unit, Cuba
- ↑ RELATION BETWEEN ELDERLY AND INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, Turkey
- ↑ "geriatric medical intensive care nurse photo". http://www.humanistic-photography.com/efiles/metaA.htm.
- ↑ geriatric intensive-care school
- ↑ "Training courses in pediatric and geriatric intensive care, India". http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/20040131/conversation03.shtml.
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