Too frail for surgery? Initial results of a large multidisciplinary prospective study examining preoperative variables predictive of poor surgical outcomes

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 217, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Revenig, Louis M ^a   Canter, Daniel J ^a,b   Taylor, Maxwell D ^a   Tai, Caroline ^a   Sweeney, John F ^a   Sarmiento, Juan M ^a,b   Kooby, David A ^a,b   Maithel, Shishir K ^a,b   Master, Viraj A ^a,b   Ogan, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HOPKINS FRAILTY SCORE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; UROSEPSIS;

EID: 84884514002     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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