The importance of revealing data on limitation of life sustaining therapy in critical ill elderly Covid-19 patients

There is a strong link between limiting life-sustaining treatments(LST) and short-term outcomes, as is illustrated in a recent publication in this journal from Germany [1]. Once a patient has been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), limitation of LST is frequently discussed and applied. In the current pandemic, such information is of particular importance given the ongoing discussions in many countries about triage of (elderly) COVID-19 patients [2]. In this short communication we present data on the impact of limitation of LST on the outcome of elderly COVID-19 patients in Europe.