Background As the population ages, increasing numbers of older adults are undergoing
surgery. Frailty is prevalent in older adults and may be a better predictor of post-operative …

Purpose Functional status and chronic health status are important baseline characteristics of
critically ill patients. The assessment of frailty on admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) …

Background Frailty is a state of vulnerability to poor resolution of homeostasis following a
stressor event, such as chemotherapy or cancer surgery. Better knowledge of the …

Answer questions and earn CME/CNE The concept of frailty has become increasingly
recognized as one of the most important issues in health care and health outcomes and is of …

The purpose of this update of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) guidelines on
the pre-operative evaluation of the adult undergoing noncardiac surgery is to present …

Background Our purpose was to determine the relationship between preoperative frailty and
the occurrence of postoperative complications after colorectal and cardiac operations …

Clinicians managing colorectal cancer patients need to appreciate that more than 60% of
their patients are> 70 years of age, and that these proportions may increase further in the …

Background: Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome characterized by loss of physiologic and
cognitive reserves that confers vulnerability to adverse outcomes. We determined the …

Importance The Frailty Index (FI) is a known predictor of adverse outcomes in geriatric
patients. The usefulness of the FI as an outcome measure in geriatric trauma patients is …

As the majority of patients with cancer are older than 65 years, most medical, surgical, and
radiation oncologists treat a large number of older adults in their clinical practice. Older …