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Just published March 20th, 2026, the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s newest guideline on Caring for Older Adults in the ICU.
The objective of this guideline is to develop evidence-based recommendations addressing the care of older adults during and after critical illness.
In today’s rapid update we’ll just be going over the recommendations, so for the full guideline, make sure to check it out on guidelinecentral.com
Let’s get started.
- The guideline suggests a geriatric model of care for all older adults admitted to the ICU.
- The guideline makes no recommendation regarding specialized post-ICU follow-up for older survivors of critical illness.
- For older adults with vasodilatory shock, the guideline makes no recommendation with regard to targeting a mean arterial pressure of 60–65 mm Hg as compared with usual care.
- The guideline suggests not using antipsychotic medications for the prevention of delirium in older adults with critical illness.
- The guideline makes no recommendation regarding the use of antipsychotic medication in the treatment of delirium in older adults with critical illness.
And there you have it. Make sure to check out the full guideline from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and other related clinical decision support tools at guidelinecentral.com.
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