No Difference in Morbidity or Mortality Between Octogenarians and Other Geriatric Burn Trauma Patients

DISCUSSION: Among burn trauma patients ≥65 years, age should not be a sole predictor for mortality risk. Continued research is necessary in order to determine more accurate approaches to prognosticate mortality in geriatric burn trauma patients, such as the validation and refinement of a burn-trauma-related frailty index.PMID:33861652 | DOI:10.1177/00031348211011122

Source: The American Surgeon - April 16, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Miriam Alpert Areg Grigorian Victor Joe Theresa L Chin Nicole Bernal Michael Lekawa Shevonne Satahoo Jeffry Nahmias Source Type: research