Could geriatric comprehensive assessment predict the outcome of pneumonia in the very old?

摘要

SIR-Patients over the age of 65 years develop pneumonia twice as often as younger patients. Risk factors include poor nutrition, endotracheal intubation and neuromuscular disease. Aspiration was felt to be particularly frequent in the elderly . Interestingly, mortality in the intensive care unit amongst patients with respiratory disease is not predictable on the basis of age alone, but requires examination of co-morbid conditions .