Caring for older adults in the ICU

In this episode, Dr. Sergio Zanotti discusses the care of older adults in the ICU. He is joined by Dr. Lauren Ferrante, a pulmonary critical care physician in the medical intensive care unit at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and serves as Director, Operations Core, at the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Dr. Ferrante is the lead author of the recently published “Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Caring for Older Adults in the ICU.”

Additional resources:

Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Care for Older Adults in the ICU. Crit Care Medicine 2026

Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Care for Older Adults in the ICU. Implementation Toolkit

American Geriatric Society Beers Criteria (Pocket Guide)

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Correspondent. By Virginia Evans