Highlights that cardiac disease and emergency status are powerful predictors of surgical outcomes in elderly patients.
In February 2007, I wrote an editorial titled “Surgery in the Geriatric Patient: Aging, the Heart, Emergencies, and Us.”1 I expanded on the premise that comorbid illnesses, specifically cardiac disease and emergency status, were the most powerful predictors of outcomes for elderly patients.
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