Addressing Sensory Impairment in the ICU: Critically Important for Improving Outcomes

Millions of older adults are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) every year. Many of these patients have preexisting impairment in hearing or vision, but sensory impairment is rarely addressed in the ICU. This talk will present recent work evaluating the association of sensory impairment with f...

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Autor principal: Ferrante, Lauren
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743701/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2893
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description Millions of older adults are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) every year. Many of these patients have preexisting impairment in hearing or vision, but sensory impairment is rarely addressed in the ICU. This talk will present recent work evaluating the association of sensory impairment with functional outcomes among older ICU patients, and discuss barriers to and potential strategies for addressing sensory impairment in the ICU.
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spelling pubmed-77437012020-12-21 Addressing Sensory Impairment in the ICU: Critically Important for Improving Outcomes Ferrante, Lauren Innov Aging Abstracts Millions of older adults are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) every year. Many of these patients have preexisting impairment in hearing or vision, but sensory impairment is rarely addressed in the ICU. This talk will present recent work evaluating the association of sensory impairment with functional outcomes among older ICU patients, and discuss barriers to and potential strategies for addressing sensory impairment in the ICU. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7743701/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2893 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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