Postoperative cognitive worsening in seniors with an age above life expectancy: a prospective longitudinal study.

Background: The growing number of elderly patients in hospitals is a challenge for healthcare systems. The main objective is to measure the postoperative change in the cognitive status at hospital discharge and one year after discharge in elderly patients undergoing planned or deferrable surgery.

Methods: We planned a prospective longitudinal study, single-center study: secondary care level hospital, enrolment from September 2018 to May 2019.

Intensive Care Patients from the First COVID-19 Wave: One-Year Survival after Tocilizumab Treatment.

Introduction: An infection by COVID-19 triggers a dangerous cytokine storm, so tocilizumab has been introduced in Italy as an agent blocking the cytokine storm. This paper aims to describe the one-year survival of ICU patients treated with tocilizumab.

Methods: This observational study enrolled all patients confirmed to be infected by COVID-19 who were admitted to the ICU in our center.