OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of asymptomatic, haemodynamically stable, septic, elderly patients in oxyological care is considerable. Our aim was to describe the prevalence, sociodemographic characteristics, triage category, disposition, and lactate level of these patients.

METHODS: Our research method was a quanitative, retrospective document analysis. Our sample group consisted of patients treated for sepsis between 01/01/2024 and 29/02/2024, aged 65 years or older, with atypical symptoms (n=103). The obtained data was evaluated by descriptive and mathematical statistical calculations (chi² test, two-sample T-test, correlation analysis) using SPSS 26.0 software (p<0.05).

RESULTS: Septicaemia BNO-code, 44.23% of patients diagnosed with septicaemia had elderly, cardiorespiratory stable, asymptomatic sepsis. The study found that residents of social institutions had a significantly higher proportion of deaths from sepsis (p=0.004). We found that the group of triage categories that were re-generated based on NEWS scores was significantly lower (p=0.000). The control group was the septic patients with typical complaints. The result was that the survival rates of the control group and the main group weren’t significantly different (p=0.34) and they weren’t significantly sooner on antibiotics (p=0.15).

CONCLUSIONS: Asymptomatic sepsis in old age is a major disease process with a high mortality rate, and it’s recognition is still often difficult even for experienced caregivers. The development of a standardised care protocol could be useful, which could increase the survival rate of patients.