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Surgical mortality in patients in extremis: futility in emergency abdominal surgery
BACKGROUND: The number of older patients with multiple comorbidities in the emergency service is increasingly frequent, which implies the risk of incurring in futile surgical interventions. Some interventions generate false expectations of survival or quality of life in patients and families and rep...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9881309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36703155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-022-01897-1 |