Frailty and perioperative outcomes: SNAP-3 as a call to action.
prospective_cohort · Level II
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Abstract
Generalisable, prospectively collected data from 7800 older UK surgical patients in the 3<sup>rd</sup> Sprint National Anesthesia Project (SNAP-3) confirm that the presence of frailty is a key risk factor for adverse outcomes among older surgical patients. What comes next? Anaesthetists should strive to identify all patients with a Clinical Frailty Scale score ≥4 as being at elevated risk. Researchers, in collaboration with patients, clinicians and health system leaders, should move from a scientific focus on frailty as a risk factor to developing and evaluating interventions to improve outcomes for the growing population of surgical patients with frailty.
Medical subject headings
- Frailty
- Postoperative Complications
- Frail Elderly