• Christian Jung


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    Email —  ******@***med.uni-duesseldorf.de
    Medical Faculty Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine Heinrich–Heine University Düsseldorf —  Düsseldorf, Germany

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  • A Very Old Patient in the ICU: Much More Than an Acute Organ Dysfuncti

    • 20/04/2023

    Treating an elderly patient in intensive therapy requires the integration of many components. The purpose of this paper is to promote a comprehensive assessment of the critically ill patient aged 80 or more years.   Introduction Ageing of the population combined with a shortage of intensive care unit (ICU) beds results in a demand for intensive care continuously outstripping supply of...

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  • ICU Management of the Very Old: The Evidence Base Anno 2022

    • 16/03/2022

    This overview explores the publications concerning the very old ICU patients since 2011 and with a focus on publications from the VIP network on elderly COVID-19 patients. Introduction In 2017, an international group of intensivists with a particular interest for geriatric intensive care published a statement paper (Flaatten et al. 2017). This paper discussed the status of research...

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  • Male Sex - An Independent Risk Factor for Mortality in Very Old Intens

    • 24/08/2021

    Among 1,841 very old ICU patients with respiratory failure, although women had higher age and frailty, males had higher 30-day mortality assessed one month after ICU admission. Particularly in light of the ongoing pandemic, male patients appear to be at significantly higher risk for worse outcomes than females. Introduction Demographic change does not stop at  the intensive care...

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