Elderly patients who survive ICU stay have high rate of death in following years
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 13:28
in Health & Medicine
Elderly patients who are hospitalized in an intensive care unit and survive are discharged from the hospital have a high rate of death in the following three years, and patients who receive mechanical ventilation have a substantially increased rate of death compared with both hospital and general population controls in the first several months after hospital discharge, according to a new study.