title: [Frail patients and surgery].
abstract: It is estimated that 15% of patients above 65 years of age are frail. Frail patients have significantly higher risk of post-operative complications when undergoing both elective and emergency surgery than patients who are not frail. Therefore, it is recommended that all patients above 65 years are frailty scored prior to a surgical procedure. It seems advisable to include the following items in a multimodal frailty score: evaluation of the patient's cognitive ability, functional status, nutritional status and pulmonary and cardiac function.
authors.affiliation: nadiahenriksen@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nadia A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Henriksen
authors.forename: Frederik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Helgstrand
authors.forename: Ismail
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gögenur
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D016330:Frail Elderly; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors