Characteristics, Evaluation and Monitoring of Critical Illness in the Elderly

Abstract

Population aging is a common problem facing the world, and as a developing country, China has a particularly prominent problem of population aging.With the increasing aging trend of the population, the incidence of critical illness in the elderly continues to rise, which has become an increasingly serious challenge in the medical field.Elderly critically ill patients have certain common characteristics.Understanding these characteristics and objectively evaluating and monitoring them is helpful to determine the changes of disease condition, evaluate the clinical prognosis and provide the basis for formulating more reasonable diagnosis and treatment strategies.In this paper, the characteristics, evaluation and monitoring of critical illness in the elderly are briefly reviewed.

Keywords

• elderly
• critical illness
• characteristics
• evaluation and monitoring