Intensive care clinicians are often uncertain as to what triage truly means and entails in a
disaster situation. Their uncertainty likely stems from a lack of experience among clinicians …

Caring for the elderly has always been challenging for the intensive care unit (ICU)
physician. Concerns like frailty, comorbidities, polypharmacy and advanced directives come …

Objective To describe clinical characteristics, disease course and outcomes in a large and
well-documented cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands. Methods We …

Caring for critically ill patients is challenging in resource-limited settings, where the burden
of disease and mortality from potentially treatable illnesses is higher than in resource-rich …

Purpose Patient and family engagement plays an important role in the intensive care unit
(ICU), however the degree to which practices are being implemented globally is not known …

Very old (aged≥ 80 years) adults constitute an increasing proportion of the global
population. Currently, this subgroup of patients represents an important percentage of …

Abstract This White Paper has been formally accepted for support by the International
Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) and by the World Federation of Intensive and …

Rapid global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and
the resultant clinical illness, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), drove the World Health …

Decision-making by intensivists around accepting patients to intensive care units is a
complex area, with often high-stakes, difficult, emotive decisions being made with limited …

Objective To develop prediction models for intensive care unit (ICU) vs non-ICU level-of-
care need within 24 hours of inpatient admission for emergency department (ED) patients …