title: [Treatment results in geriatric patients with acute abdomen in the intensive care unit].
abstract: Presented is material of 277 patients, who were treated due to acute abdomen illness in Intensive Therapy Unit at 2nd Department General Surgery Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University during the time: from 01.07.1997 till 30.06.2002. This material regards only geriatric patients (patients > 65 years old). Patients analysis was divided into two main groups: patients with haemorrhagic shock caused by gastrointestinal bleeding (49 patients--group A) and by ruptured abdominal aneurysm (16 patients--group B), patients with hypovolemic and/or septic shock owing to diffuse peritonitis (150 patients--group C), and intestinal obstruction (62 patients--group D). The other principles of therapeutic procedures were described for every main group. In every illness group was showed: multiorgan dysfunction (acute myocardial ischemia with enzymatic and/or electrocardiographic changes, pulmonary oedema as acute left ventricular failure, respiratory and renal failure and metabolic dysfunction), actual punctuation into two scoring systems: APACHE II (28.8 points) and TISS-28 (44.5 points), time of hospitalization in the intensive therapy unit (mean 7.1 days), hospital's time of treatment (mean 17.5 days), mortality (for all patients 57.8%). These dates compared with dates from publications.
authors.affiliation: II Katedra Chirurgii Ogólnej Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 31-501 Kraków, ul. Kopernika 21.
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zajac
authors.forename: Elzbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gasiorek-Jaśko
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chruściel
mesh_terms: D018806:APACHE; D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000150:complications; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000150:complications; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012771:Shock, Hemorrhagic / Q000209:etiology; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000209:etiology; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome