Zhonghua wei zhong bing ji jiu yi xue
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Zhonghua Wei Zhong Bing Ji Jiu Yi Xue · Oct 2017
Review[Research progress of frailty syndrome in critically ill elderly patients].
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%. ⋯ 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.