Why the study?
With increased global life expectancy, there is a need to optimize outcomes in older surgical patients beyond traditional morbidity and mortality indicators.
Prehabilitation and multidisciplinary geriatric surgical services are highlighted as strategies to improve postoperative outcomes and quality of life in older surgical patients.
Prehabilitation and multidisciplinary care may improve geriatric surgical outcomes; leaves open need for higher-level evidence.
The era of geriatric surgery has arrived with increased global life expectancy. The need to optimize outcomes in this group of patients goes beyond traditional outcomes such as postoperative morbidity and mortality indicators. Recognizing risk factors that impact adverse surgical outcomes such as frailty and sarcopenia, individualizing optimization strategies such as prehabilitation and a multidisciplinary geriatric surgical service have been shown to improve postoperative outcomes and help the older surgical patient regain premorbid function and maintain quality of life. There needs to be a concerted effort to increase awareness of this increasingly important topic in practicing surgeons around the world to meet the challenges of the aging population.
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