Sarcopenia is Predictive of Functional Outcomes in Older Trauma Patients

Introduction: Older patients are more vulnerable to poor outcomes after trauma than younger patients. Sarcopenia, loss of skeletal mass, is prevalent in trauma patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and it has been shown to correlate with adverse outcomes, such as mortality and ICU days...

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Autores principales: Hwang, Franchesca, McGreevy, Christopher M, Pentakota, Sri Ram, Verde, Davis, Park, Joo Hye, Berlin, Ana, Glass, Nina E, Livingston, David H, Mosenthal, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Trauma
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31890363
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6154

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31890363
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6154

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