Population aging is a common problem facing the world,and as a developing country,China has a particularly prominent problem of population aging.With the increasing aging trend of the population,the incidence of critical illness in the elder-ly continues to rise,which has become an increasingly serious challenge in the medical field.Elderly critically ill patients have certain common characteristics.Understanding these characteristics and objectively evaluating and monitoring them is helpful to determine the changes of disease condition,evaluate the clinical prognosis and provide the basis for formulating more reasonable diagnosis and treat-ment strategies.In this paper,the characteristics,evaluation and monitoring of critical illness in the elderly are briefly reviewed.
关键词
老年人/危重症/特点/评估与监测
Key words
Elderly/Critical illness/Characteristics/Evaluation and monitoring