Aggressive intensive care treatment of very elderly patients with tetanus is justified.
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Serval ID
serval:BIB_1A22D72DDD77
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Case report (case report): feedback on an observation with a short commentary.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Aggressive intensive care treatment of very elderly patients with tetanus is justified.
Journal
Chest
ISSN
0012-3692 (Print)
ISSN-L
0012-3692
Publication state
Published
Issued date
1990
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
97
Number
3
Pages
702-705
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Case Reports ; Journal ArticlePublication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Tetanus is now rare in industrialized countries, occurring mainly in elderly patients. To assess whether aggressive therapy of these patients in the intensive care unit is justified, we retrospectively studied all patients with tetanus hospitalized in our institution between 1968 and 1989. Patients over the age of 70 years fared as well as those under 70 years and recovered without sequelae. These results favor aggressive treatment of elderly patients with tetanus in the intensive care unit.
Keywords
Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Critical Care, Diazepam/therapeutic use, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pancuronium/therapeutic use, Respiration, Artificial, Retrospective Studies, Tetanus/complications, Tetanus/drug therapy, Tracheostomy
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Web of science
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