Population
375 elderly patients over the age of 75 years undergoing emergency abdominal operations
Design
Case_series
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Emphasizes cardiorespiratory optimization in elderly emergency surgery; leaves open whether targeted protocols improve outcomes.
Emergency abdominal surgery in patients over 75 carries a high mortality rate of 31.7%, driven primarily by surgical severity and cardiorespiratory complications rather than age itself.
Blake et al. (1976) studied this question.
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