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Frailty

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Frailty

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General

General

De Biasio. Frailty in Critical Care Medicine: A Review. Anesth Analg. 2020;130(6):1462-1473
Paul. Critical Illness and the Frailty Syndrome: Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutic Targets. Anesth Analg 2020;130(6):1545-1555

Background

Sarcopaenia

Damanti. Acute Sarcopenia: Mechanisms and Management. Nutrients 2024;16(20):3428

Conditions

Emergency Surgery

Aceto. Diagnosis of frailty and implications on surgical process in the elderly. A narrative review. Eur J Anaesthesiol Intensive Care 2023;2(6):e0041
Jin. Frailty: the perioperative and anesthesia challenges of an emerging pandemic. J Anesth 2023;37:624–640
Gottesman. Frailty and emergency surgery: identification and evidence-based care for vulnerable older adults. Anaesthesia 2022;epublished September 12th

Old Age

COVID-19

Hussien. Different aspects of frailty and COVID-19: points to consider in the current pandemic and future ones. BMC Geriatr. 2021;21(1):389

Delirium

Bellelli. Delirium and frailty in older adults: Clinical overlap and biological underpinnings. J Intern Med 2024;296:382–398

Heart Failure

Uchmanowicz. State of the Art in Measuring Frailty in Patients With Heart Failure: from Diagnosis to Advanced Heart Failure. Curr Heart Fail Rep 2025;22:11

Complications

Complication

Monitoring & Investigations

General

Therapies

Palliative Care

Crooms. Palliative Care and End-of-Life Considerations for the Frail Patient. Anesth Analg. 2020 Jun;130(6):1504-1515.