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Emergency Abdominal Surgery in the Elderly: Can We Predict Mortality?
BACKGROUND: The United Kingdom population is ageing. Half of patients requiring an emergency laparotomy are aged over 70, 20 % die within 30 days, and less than half receive good care. Frailty and delay in management are associated with poor surgical outcomes. P-POSSUM risk scoring is widely accepte...
Autores principales: | Sharrock, Anna E., McLachlan, Jenny, Chambers, Robert, Bailey, Ian S., Kirkby-Bott, James |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5258798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27783141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00268-016-3751-3 |
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