Impact of frailty in patients admitted for elective trauma and orthopaedic surgery
Gregory, Jemma Sehmbi, Gurpreet Munday, Sophie
Gregory, Jemma
Sehmbi, Gurpreet
Munday, Sophie
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Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
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2022-12-05
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Frailty alone should not be a limiting factor for patients undergoing elective surgery however there is a strong argument to run
perioperative multidisciplinary clinics as patients living with frailty have an increased risk of post-operative complications and increased length of stay. Integrating frailty scoring into the elective surgical pathway would enable patients living with frailty to be identified and reviewed by the MDT to assess risk and optimise medically prior to surgery.
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Abstracts of the 18th Congress of the European Geriatric Medicine Society. Eur Geriatr Med 13 (Suppl 1), 1–439 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-022-00711-8
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