Why the study?
Elderly patients comprise an increasing proportion of emergency general surgery procedures, prompting the need to determine their intra-hospital mortality rate following emergency gastrointestinal surgical procedures.
What are the risk factors for intra-hospital mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency gastrointestinal surgery?
What are the risk factors for intra-hospital mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency gastrointestinal surgery?
In elderly patients undergoing emergency gastrointestinal surgery, gastric interventions, high ASA score, heart/kidney disease, and elevated white cell count are independent risk factors for intra-hospital mortality.
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May aid risk stratification in elderly emergency GI surgery; leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
Pešić et al. (2019) studied this question.
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