Surgical mortality in patients in extremis
he number of older patients with multiple comorbidities in the emergency service is increasingly frequent, which implies the risk of incurring in futile surgical interventions. Some interventions generate false expectations of survival or quality of life in patients and families and represent a negl...
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- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2023
- Institución:
- Universidad del Rosario
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/42170
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/42170
- Palabra clave:
- Abdominal surgery
Surgical mortality
- Rights
- License
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
| Summary: | he number of older patients with multiple comorbidities in the emergency service is increasingly frequent, which implies the risk of incurring in futile surgical interventions. Some interventions generate false expectations of survival or quality of life in patients and families and represent a negligible therapeutic benefit in patients whose chances of survival are minimal. In order to address this dilemma, we describe mortality in a cohort of patients undergoing emergency laparotomy with a risk ? 75% per the ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator. |
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