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Frailty and anesthesia – risks during and post-surgery
Frailty is a state of decreased physiologic reserve and resistance to stressors. Its prevalence increases with age and is estimated to be 26% in those aged above 85 years. As the population ages, frailty will be increasingly seen in surgical patients receiving anesthesia. Here, we evaluate the instr...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178933/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30323657 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/LRA.S142996 |