Tag: frailty
Study highlights importance of implementing preoperative frailty assessment tool in vascular...
Preoperative frailty is associated with a significantly increased long-term mortality after elective vascular surgery. This is the conclusion of Louise BD Banning (University of...
No evidence to deny vascular intervention based on frailty score alone,...
A systematic review and meta-analysis has found that frailty is an independent risk factor in vascular surgery patients, but there is no evidence to...
A patient’s health is “the most important” determinant of outcome after...
Andrew Klein (a consultant anaesthetist from Royal Papworth hospital in Cambridge, UK) tells Vascular News that research in cardiac surgery has shown that while the surgeon...
