Does older age increase perioperative complications, mortality, and length of stay in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery?
Advanced age is associated with increased perioperative complications and length of stay in noncardiac surgery, though absolute mortality remains low even in octogenarians.
Elderly patients had a higher rate of major perioperative complications and mortality after noncardiac surgery and a longer length of stay, but even in patients 80 years of age or older, mortality was low.
Polanczyk et al. (Tue,) studied this question.