The concept of frailty syndrome (FS) was first described in the scientific literature three
decades ago. For a very long time, we understood it as a geriatric problem, recently …

With advances in health care practices and delivery, the overall life expectancy of the
Western population has increased. For those practitioners involved in the care of the patient …

Background Frailty is a risk factor for adverse postoperative outcomes. We aimed to test the
performance of a prospectively validated frailty measure, the Risk Analysis Index (RAI) in …

Over the past 50 years, there have been dramatic improvements in cardiac surgical
processes and outcomes that allow for procedures to be performed safely on older and …

Background Cardiac surgery risk scoring systems predict operative mortality but not
outcomes related to preoperative frailty. The aim of this study was to assess frailty in a cohort …

Objective To assess a novel hypothesis to explain delirium after cardiac surgery through the
relationship between cumulative fluid balance and delirium. This hypothesis involved an …

Objective Hypnotherapy has been proposed as an emerging tool that can be implemented
in management of different aspects of postoperative cardiac surgical care. This technique …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) disproportionately affects older adults. It is expected that by
2030, one in five people in the United States will be older than 65 years. Individuals with …

Background: For older adults with severe aortic stenosis (AS) undergoing aortic valve
replacement (AVR), recovery of physical function is important, yet few studies objectively …

Objectives To study the timing, threshold, and duration of intraoperative hypotension (IOH)
associated with the risk of postoperative delirium (POD). Design A single-center …