Intensive Care for Elderly Patients: Clinical, Ethical and Economic Considerations
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Marco Resta; Marco Dei Poli
- Source
- Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care ISBN: 9788847024595
- Subject
- Nursing
Work (electrical)
business.industry
Intensive care
Premise
Medicine
Western world
Admission rate
Economic shortage
Prognosis Marker
business
Elderly patient
- Language
Nearly every work on the issues surrounding intensive care for elderly patients starts out with the same premise: that in the western world the future is likely to bring a shortage of young people and an increasing number of over-80s.