key: cord-0763554-bnkz6pe4 authors: Aujayeb, Avinash title: Ventilating the elderly with Covid-19 date: 2021-07-17 journal: QJM DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcab201 sha: 2430835a35a6fa8d33fab4d8491a2ceae45e98dc doc_id: 763554 cord_uid: bnkz6pe4 nan Letter to the editor 9 Dear Editor, we thank Raheja et al 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 3 39 Author Contributions 40 AA conceptualized, wrote and takes full responsibility for manuscript. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 COVID-19 patients >75 years be Ventilated? An Outcome Study Should we ventilate elderly patients with COVID-19? Age and frailty are independently associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and increased care needs in survivors: results of an international multi-centre study Boulanger C et al VIP2 study group. The contribution of frailty, cognition, activity of daily life and comorbidities on outcome in acutely admitted patients over 80 years in European ICUs: the VIP2 study 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60