Many countries are facing an aging population. As people live longer, surgeons face the
prospect of operating on increasingly older patients. Traditional teaching is that with older …

Purpose The purpose of this review was to determine the association between frailty and
mortality among adults≥ 65 years old undergoing emergency general surgery (EGS) …

Background With population aging, the number of frail patients with pancreatic cancer has
increased. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a simple and validated tool to assess frailty …

Background Older people are the largest group admitted to hospital with serious injuries.
Many older people are living with frailty, a risk factor for poor recovery. We aimed to examine …

Background Frailty is associated with advancing age and may result in adverse
postoperative outcomes. A suspected growing elderly population needing emergency …

Objective During the COVID-19 pandemic the continuation or cessation of angiotensin-
converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) has been …

Background Quantitative futility is an appraisal of the risk of failure of a treatment. For those
who do not survive, a laparotomy has provided negligible therapeutic benefit and may …

As life expectancy increases, the older population continues to grow rapidly, resulting in
increased requirement for surgery for older patients with gastrointestinal cancer. Older …

Objectives To evaluate, in a cohort of adults≥ 80 years old, the frailty status at the
emergency department (ED) admission, for the in-hospital death risk stratification of patients …

Background Emergency laparotomy has high morbidity and mortality rates. Frailty
assessment remains underutilized in this setting, in part due to time constraints and …