Uscanga MI, Suarez MJA, Robledo MP, Noyola VHF

Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 110-113
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ABSTRACT

Preoperative assessment is a tool that helps recognize risk factors, establishes percentages of complications in those patients who undergo surgery and classifies those who are more susceptible to developing complications, even to determine who is not suitable to perform surgery a specific surgical procedure, currently the population of older adults is increasing and as a consequence the percentage of patients requiring surgical interventions. The comprehensive geriatric assessment is an individualized evaluation tool for the Elderly that allows the integration of important data from the different domains (cognitive, clinical, functional and social), collected through different scales and helps to detect patients with frailty syndrome, which is a risk factor for the development of postoperative complications and is used as a predictor of perioperative morbidity and mortality and is currently considered a well-established risk factor for adverse effects. For this reason, in order to perform a surgical procedure more safely and reduce complications in this group of patients, an assessment beyond laboratory data, imaging and electrocardiographic recording is required, since this is a population with a decreased response of several systems, so we propose to implement comprehensive geriatric assessment as a tool to identify frailty syndrome in the Elderly and reduce post-surgical complications that occur in patients who require some type of surgical procedure in general surgery.

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