Long-Term Outcomes After ICU Admission Triage in Octogenarians.

Objective: To describe ICU admission triage and outcomes in octogenarians.

Design: Multicenter prospective observational study.

Setting: Three nonuniversity hospitals and three university hospitals in Norway.

Sex steroid hormones in circulatory shock, sepsis syndrome, and septic shock.

Methods: Estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), testosterone (T), FSH, and LH levels were daily measured during a ten day period in 50 critically ill patients (38 men, 12 post-menopausal women). Patients were separated into four groups: A) no circulatory failure, no sepsis, B) sepsis syndrome without circulatory failure, C) circulatory failure without sepsis syndrome, D) septic shock. Results of hormonal measurements were compared 1) among the 4 groups, 2) between male and female patients, 3) between septic and nonseptic patients.