Frail Patients Are at Increased Risk for Mortality and Prolonged Institutional Care After Cardiac Surgery

By Dana H. Lee, K. Buth, B. Martin, A. Yip, G. Hirsch. Circulation, 2010

643 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Physiology

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In Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

1. M. Mack

In Geriatrics and Gerontology

1. Kenneth Rockwood
2. Andrew Swartz
3. D. Peters
4. Vic Velanovich
5. Ilan Rubinfeld
6. H. Antoine
7. Luigi Ferrucci
8. Arnold Mitnitski

In Physiology

1. Kenneth Rockwood
2. Luigi Ferrucci

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of frailty on intensive care unit outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2017, background): “For example, frail patients may be more difficult to wean from mechanical ventilation because of weakness, sarcopenia, and decreased oxygen uptake [9, 17, 18, 43].”
• Accumulating deficits model of frailty and postoperative mortality and morbidity: its application to a national database. (2013, background): “[7] Lee DH, Buth KJ, Martin B-J, Yip AM, Hirsch GM.”
• Frailty in the older surgical patient: a review. (2012, neutral): “The prevalence of frailty in patients of all ages presenting for surgical procedures is quoted at between 4.1 and 50.3% [ 14 – 17 ].”
• Frailty Assessment in the Cardiovascular Care of Older Adults (2013, methodology): “(64) retrospectively reviewed data from theMaritime Heart Center Cardiac Surgery Registry and defined frailty as ambulation dependence, ADL disability, or diagnosed dementia.”
• Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease (version 2012): the Joint Task Force on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). (2012, neutral): “The predictive performance of risk scores may be improved by the following means: repeated recalibration of scores over time, as is the case for STS and EuroSCORE with the EuroSCORE II—addition of variables, in particular indices aimed at assessing functional and cognitive capacities and frailty in ”