The prognostic value of clinical frailty and American Society of Anesthesiology score in patients with chronic limb threatening ischaemia

Conclusions: Frailty is highly prevalent and a poor prognostic indicator in patients with CLTI admitted as an emergency. Our results suggest that incorporating assessment of comorbidities into frailty assessment may offer prognostic value, but comparable to existing clinical frailty assessment. Further work to identify patients with inferior prognosis is required.PMID:37528752 | DOI:10.1024/0301-1526/a001085
Source: VASA. Zeitschrift fur Gefasskrankheiten. Journal for Vascular Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research