Frailty assessment in the preoperative setting

With increasing life expectancy and technological advancement, provision of anaesthesia for elderly patients has become a significant part of the overall caseload. Frailty is a concept without a universally agreed upon definition and is often confounded with ageing and/or morbidity. The nebulousness...

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Published inAnaesthesia and intensive care medicine Vol. 24; no. 9; pp. 505 - 509
Main Authors Jeffrey, Chiu Po Ping, Manson, Chan Tak Hei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2023
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Frailty
geriatric
perioperative medicine
pre-anaesthetic assessment
Frailty
geriatric
pre-anaesthetic assessment
perioperative medicine
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Summary:With increasing life expectancy and technological advancement, provision of anaesthesia for elderly patients has become a significant part of the overall caseload. Frailty is a concept without a universally agreed upon definition and is often confounded with ageing and/or morbidity. The nebulousness of the concept of frailty and the wide range of tools available to assess it has led to a less than satisfactory adoption of frailty assessment as a part of preoperative assessments. This review evaluates recent studies that validate and compare these tools' prognostic power. As the field of anaesthesia expands out of the theatre it is crucial for us to expand our knowledge and adopt frailty assessment to assist in our perioperative patient counselling and the decision-making process.
ISSN:1472-0299
1878-7584
DOI:10.1016/j.mpaic.2023.05.022