DEI

Care of the Older ICU Patient in the COVID Era and Beyond

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Bram Rochwerg, MD, MSc (Epi)

  Associate Professor
  McMaster University
  Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
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  Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS

  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Yale University School of Medicine
  Guilford, Connecticut

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
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  Nathan Brummel, MD, MSCI

  Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
  The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
  Columbus, Ohio

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionally affected adults aged 65 and older in the United States and worldwide. Its impact extended far beyond the high rate of infection in older adults, with clinical implications in the ICU (such as extraordinarily high rates of ICU delirium) as well as ethical/policy implications for the ICU (such as whether age should be considered in triage of scarce ICU resources). In this session, speakers will present data on COVID’s direct impact on older ICU patients and consider how these lessons learned can inform our ICU practice beyond the COVID-19 era.

Presentations:

• Delirium in Critically Ill Older Adults: COVID and Beyond
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Kirsten Fiest, PhD – University of Calgary
• Effect of ICU Therapeutics in Older Adults: COVID and Beyond
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Jeremy R. DeGrado, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS – Brigham & Women's Hospital
• Long-Term Outcomes Among Older ICU Survivors: COVID and Beyond
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Lauren E. Ferrante, MD, MHS – Yale University School of Medicine