Research progress of frailty syndrome in critically ill elderly patients

VernacularTitle:衰弱综合征在老年危重症患者中的研究进展
Author: Jiahui DONG ¹ ; Jie SUN ; An ZENG ; Zhenhui GUO
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1. 510010 广东广州,广州军区广州总医院老年重症医学科,广东省老年感染与器官功能支持重点实验室,广州市老年感染与脏器功能支持重点实验室
Keywords: Frailty syndrome; Frailty index; Clinical frailty scale; Critical ill; Elderly
From:Chinese Critical Care Medicine 2017;29(10):958-960
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Frailty syndrome is the core of the comprehensive geriatric assessment of the elderly, which affects the prognosis of elderly critical illness patients and becomes the hotspot of the current geriatric medical research of elderly patients. In critically ill elderly patients, the incidence rate of frailty syndrome is 21％-59％. Frailty syndrome is an independent risk factor in elderly patients with complications, short-term and long-term mortality. Moreover frailty is always accompanied by poor state and affects the health quality of these patients. In the field of critical care medicine in our country, the study of the frailty syndrome is still in its infancy. This article focuses on the research progress of frailty syndrome, and the assessment of the frailty critical illness elderly patients is helpful for the clinical doctors to determine the prognosis and treatment decision.