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Frailty assessment in vascular surgery and its utility in preoperative decision making.
Seminars in vascular surgery - 1 Jun 2015
Kraiss Larry W, Beckstrom Julie L, Brooke Benjamin S
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The average patient requiring vascular surgery has become older, as life expectancy within the US population has increased. Many older patients have some degree of frailty and reside near the limit of their physiological reserve with restricted ability to respond to stressors such as surgery. Frailty assessment is an important part of the preoperative decision-making process, in order to determine whether...
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