Abstract:[Objective] To search the risk factors for intensive care unit (ICU) stay after proximal femoral nail anti-rotation (PFNA) for femoral intertrochanteric fractures in the elderly. [Methods] A retrospective study was conducted on 437 elderly patients who received PFNA for femoral intertrochanteric fractures in our hospital from January 2013 to August 2018. According to whether the patients had ICU stay after operation, they were divided into ICU group and non-ICU group. Univariate comparison and multi-factor binary logistic regression analysis were used to explore the risk factors related to ICU stay after surgery. [Results] Among the 437 patients, 66 patients had ICU stay, accounting for 15.1%, whereas the remaining 371 patients had no ICU stay, accounting for 84.9%. As results of univariate comparison, the ICU group proved significantly greater than the non-ICU group in terms of proportions of cerebrovascular disease (15.2% vs 6.5%, P= 0.015), Alzheimer's disease (6.1% vs 1.1%, P=0.021), ASA grade ≥3 (48.5% vs 24.0%, P<0.001) and general anesthesia (80.3% vs 18.9%, P<0.001). However, there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in gender composition, age, BMI and other common medical complications, including diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, chronic lung disease, coronary heart disease, tumor, as well as interval from injury to operation, AO classification of the fracture, preoperative examination parameters, intraoperative blood loss, intraoperative blood transfusion ratio, and operation time (P>0.05). As for Multi-factor binary logistic regression analysis, the general anesthesia (OR=18.970, 95%CI: 9.560~37.640, P<0.001) and ASA grade ≥3 (OR=3.553, 95%CI: 1.856~6.799, P<0.001) were independent risk factors for ICU stay after internal fixation of femoral intertrochanteric fractures in the elderly. [Conclusion] General anesthesia and ASA grade ≥3 are independent risk factors for ICU stay after internal fixation of femoral intertrochanteric fractures in the elderly.