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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...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2019
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| 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 |