Overview of the VIP1 study (POETICS in UK)
This study addressed the ICU care of the very old, defined as patients ≥ 80 years, admitted to the ICU. The study was the first large multinational study, with a basis in Europe, to study the frequency of ICU admission in the very old patients and the use of common ICU resources including ICU and hospital LOS. Outcome was registered as outcome at ICU discharge and at 30 days. We also studied the feasibility of a very simple frailty index. Patients were recruited from October 2016 to May 2017.
The results from VIP1 were published in Intensive Care Medicine and other journals.
View the previously published papers from the VIP1 study.
The VIP1 results were also presented at ESICM Lives 2017 and was voted a 2017 top 3 publication at ESICM 2018.
The VIP1 study was endorsed by ESICM (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine).
The VIP1-study was called the POETICS study in Great Britain.
VIP1 steering group and country coordinators
| Hans Flaatten | Principal Investigator of the VIP study group and Past chair HSRO section | Bergen, Norway |
| Bertrand Guidet | French coordinator | Paris, France |
| Rui Moreno | Portuguese coordinator | Lisboa, Portugal |
| Dylan deLange | The Nethelands coordinator | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Steffen Christensen | Danish coordinator | Aarhus, Denmark |
| Jesper Fjølner | Datamanager | Aarhus, Denmark |
| Akos Csomos | Hungarian coordinator | Budapest, Hungary |
| Andreas Valentin | Austrian coordinator | Vienna, Austria |
| Antonio Artigas | Spanish coordinator | Barcelona, Spain |
| Bernardo Bollen Pinto | Swiss coordinator | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Brian Marsh | Irish coordinator | Dublin, Ireland |
| Christian Jung | German coordinator | Dusseldorf, Germany |
| Christina Öhman | Swedish coordinator | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Finn Andersen | Norwegian coordinator | Ålesund, Norway |
| Guido Bertolini | Italian coordinator | Milan, Italy |
| Maurizio Cecconi | Italian co-coordinator | Milan, Italy |
| Primož Gradišek | Slovenian coordinator | Ljublljana, Slovenia |
| Sandra Oeyen | Belgium coordinator | Ghent, Belgium |
| Seyed MohammadReza Hashemian | Iranian coordinator | Tehran, Iran |
| Tilemachos Zafeiridis | Greek coordinator | Larissa, Greece |
| Wojciech Szczeklik | Polish coordinator | Krakow, Poland |
| Ximena Watson | English coordinator | London, England |
VIP1 papers
Se the papers page.