Key result
Multiple clinical risk factors are linked to worse perioperative outcomes in major limb amputation.
Why the study?
Management of patients undergoing major limb amputations remains challenging for anesthesiologists due to increasing age and multiple comorbidities affecting perioperative outcomes.
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increasingly older with a greater number of signifi cant medical comorbidities.Age, diabetes, increased ASA grade, female sex, heart failure, systemic sepsis are among the factors associated with worse perioperative outcomes [1,3,4].Despite improvements in coordinated efforts among the disciplines, management of these patients perioperatively continues to be challenging for anesthesiologists.The physical
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Ceyhan et al. (2020) studied Major limb amputations. Preoperative risk factors (age, diabetes, ASA grade, female sex, heart failure, systemic sepsis) was evaluated on Perioperative outcomes. Age, diabetes, increased ASA grade, female sex, heart failure, and systemic sepsis are associated with worse perioperative outcomes in patients undergoing major limb amputations.
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