The Use of Frailty Scoring to Predict Early Physical Activity Levels After Cardiac Surgery

The Use of Frailty Scoring to Predict Early Physical Activity Levels After Cardiac Surgery [1]

This study evaluates the importance of of evaluating patient frailty prior to high-risk cardiothoracic operations.

Source name:

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Resource link:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.06.029 [3]

Subspecialty(ies):

Cardiac [4]

Author(s):

Yusuf S. Abdullahi, PhD,* Mohammad Yousuf Salmasi, MBBS,* Marco Moscarelli, MD, Alessandra Parlanti, MSc, Marco Marotta, MD, Egidio Varone, MD, Marco Solinas, MD, Rahuman M. Sheriff, PhD, Roberto P. Casula, FRCS, and Thanos Athanasiou, PhD, FRCS