An acute pulmonary embolism (aPE) is characterised by occlusion of one or more
pulmonary arteries. Physiological disturbance may be minimal, but often cardiac output …

Background This large-scale analysis pools individual data about the Clinical Frailty Scale
(CFS) to predict outcome in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods A systematic search …

Background/objectives Frail patients are increasingly presenting for both perioperative and
intensive care, highlighting the need for simple, valid and scaleable frailty measurement …

Background A multidisciplinary collaboration investigated the world's largest, most
catastrophic epidemic thunderstorm asthma event that took place in Melbourne, Australia …

Purpose Acute illness severity predicts mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients,
however, its predictive value decreases over time in ICU. Typically after 10 days, pre-ICU …

Objective To explore associations between frailty (Clinical Frailty Scale score of 5 or more)
in very old patients in intensive care units (ICU s) and their clinical outcomes (mortality …

Objectives Critically ill patients are often transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU) to
other locations around the hospital during which adverse events, some life threatening, are …

Abstract Background A threshold Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) of 5 (indicating mild frailty) has
been proposed to guide ICU admission for UK patients with coronavirus disease 2019 …

Purpose Frailty in critical illness is common and associated with poor outcomes, however
little is known about contributing factors. We compared the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) with a …

Background Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in critical illness. However, it is unclear
whether frailty screening on admission to the ICU can be conducted routinely at the …