Berastegui Garcia E
Cardiac Surgery Department. Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Spain
Publications
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Research Article
How to develop a simply frailty score for predicting postoperative morbidity in cardiac surgery
Author(s): Berastegui Garcia E*, Badia Gamarra S, Camara Rosell ML, Casas Garcia I, ALbaladejo Da Silva P, Delgado Ramis L, Fernandez Gallego C, Julia Almill I, Llorens Ferrer A, Moret Ruiz E, Romero Ferrer B, Ruyra Baliarda X and Oller Sales B
Introduction: Ageing and elderly people have greater risk. Physical state and frailty status represent an important risk and must be considered before cardiac surgery. More than one third of current surgeries are performed in patients older than 70 years. This is a factor to keep on mind in our routine evaluation. Currently an accepted definition for frailty is not well established. It has been considered as a physiological decline in multiple organ systems, decreasing the patient’s capacity to withstand the stresses of surgery and disease. The aim of our study was to determinate a correlation between preoperative features and the morbidity after cardiac surgery in aortic valve replacement population. Methods: We selected the 70 years old patients or older who underwent an elective aortic valve replacement. We collected prospectively a.. Read More»