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Should this elderly patient be admitted to the ICU?

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  1. Service de Réanimation Médicale, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, 75012, France

    Bertrand Guidet

  2. Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06, France

    Bertrand Guidet

  3. UMR_S 1136, Institut Pierre Louis d’Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Paris, 75013, France

    Bertrand Guidet

  4. Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Dylan W. de Lange

  5. Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    Hans Flaatten

  6. Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Hans Flaatten

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Guidet, B., de Lange, D.W. & Flaatten, H. Should this elderly patient be admitted to the ICU?. Intensive Care Med 44, 1926–1928 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5054-7

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