New Orleans—The host of negative outcomes associated with preoperative frailty has grown longer, according to a study by researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
The study concluded that preoperative frailty predicted higher rates of intraoperative hypotension, and that frail patients who experience prolonged hypotensive events were more likely to experience postoperative delirium, as well as greater overall one-year