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Decisions to admit older, frail patients to critical care must pay particular attention to quality of life and the potential burden of care on patients. This burden may extend beyond surviving a critical illness. These decisions are not easy and require careful thought, clinical judgment, and communication. Critical care that enables survival “sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”1 can go against the wishes of patients and their families, often incurring significant use of health and social care resources and informal care costs. As the UK’s demographics shift, with more ol...

### What you need to know Sepsis is a common cause for hospital admission that carries a high risk of death.1 In 2021-22, over 100 000 emergency admissions with sepsis were reported in England and Wales, with a mean patient age of 71 years.2 Adults admitted to hospital with sepsis are typically older and often have multimorbidity and functional limitations.3 Increasing degrees of frailty are associated with increased mortality in older people hospitalised for any reason,4 and illness severity and frailty synergistically increase the risk of death.5 Clinicians caring for older adults with sep...

Kiwi aerospace entrepreneurs are pushing ahead with air taxis, reusable rockets and tree-spotting drones, despite frustrations.

A Democrat campaigning for the position of auditor in Arkansas has been arrested on charges of making terroristic threats. Little Rock police arrested

He was arraigned in the Town of Plattsburgh Court and remanded to Clinton County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail 0r $100,000 bond.