Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

ASO Author Reflections: The Role of the ICU for Older Adults After High-Risk Cancer Surgery

  • ASO Author Reflections
  • Published:
Annals of Surgical Oncology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Angus DC. Admitting elderly patients to the intensive care unit: is it the right decision? JAMA. 2017;318:1443–4. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2017.14535.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Barnato AE, Albert SM, Angus DC, Lave JR, Degenholtz HB. Disability among elderly survivors of mechanical ventilation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011;183:1037–42. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201002-0301OC.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Ferrante LE, Pisani MA, Murphy TE, Gahbauer EA, Leo-Summers LS, Gill TM. Functional trajectories among older persons before and after critical illness. JAMA Intern Med. 2015;175:523–9. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.7889.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  4. Haas B, Gotlib Conn L, Rubenfeld GD, et al. “It’s parallel universes”: an analysis of communication between surgeons and intensivists. Crit Care Med. 2015;43:2147–54. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000001187.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Tillmann BW, Hallet J, Guttman MP, et al. A population-based analysis of long-term outcomes among older adults requiring unexpected intensive care unit admission after cancer surgery. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021.https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-10705-8.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Bourke W. Tillmann MD & Barbara Haas MD, PhD

  2. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Bourke W. Tillmann MD & Barbara Haas MD, PhD

  3. Management, and Evaluation, Institute of Health Policy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Bourke W. Tillmann MD, Julie Hallet MD, MSc & Barbara Haas MD, PhD

  4. Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Julie Hallet MD, MSc & Barbara Haas MD, PhD

  5. Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Julie Hallet MD, MSc & Barbara Haas MD, PhD

  6. ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Julie Hallet MD, MSc & Barbara Haas MD, PhD

  7. Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Julie Hallet MD, MSc & Barbara Haas MD, PhD

Authors
  1. Bourke W. Tillmann MD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Julie Hallet MD, MSc
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Barbara Haas MD, PhD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Bourke W. Tillmann MD.

Ethics declarations

Disclosure

Julie Hallet has received speaking honoraria from Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Canada, Novartis Oncology, and Advanced Accelerator Applications. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Tillmann, B.W., Hallet, J. & Haas, B. ASO Author Reflections: The Role of the ICU for Older Adults After High-Risk Cancer Surgery. Ann Surg Oncol 28, 7025–7026 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-10715-6

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-10715-6

Search

Navigation