Background: A barrier to routine preoperative frailty assessment is the large number of frailty
instruments described. Previous systematic reviews estimate the association of frailty with …

This paper reports on the consensus conference on the management of intra-abdominal
infections (IAIs) which was held on July 23, 2016, in Dublin, Ireland, as a part of the annual …

Background Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols reduce length of stay,
complications and costs for a large number of elective surgical procedures. A similar …

Objective: This study aimed to document the prevalence of frailty in older adults undergoing
emergency laparotomy and to explore relationships between frailty and postoperative …

Purpose General surgical procedures are among the most commonly performed operations
in the United States. Despite advances in surgical and anesthetic techniques and …

Importance Frailty is a measure of decreased physiological reserve that is associated with
morbidity and mortality in major elective and emergency general surgery operations …

Importance In this aging society, older patients are more commonly undergoing emergency
general surgery (EGS). Although frailty has been associated with worse outcomes in this …

The prevalence of older adults undergoing surgery is expected to increase as the population
ages. 1 Because of physiologic decline and loss of functional reserve, older patients are at a …

Perioperative management of older adults is a complex field that is heavily influenced by the
clinical heterogeneity of older adults. Frailty—a geriatric syndrome in which a patient is more …

Background Informed surgical consent requires accurate estimation of risks and benefits.
Multiple risk assessment tools are available; however, most are not widely used or are …