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Postoperative Patients: Urgent Surgery

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Emergency surgery procedures are frequent in older patients and are burdened by high mortality, complications, and morbidity. Older patients undergoing emergency procedures have a higher risk of complications than those undergoing elective surgery and patients of younger age.

Postoperative complications include not only surgical complications but also postoperative geriatric syndromes. Mortality is less frequently due to the surgical intervention itself than to the patient’s comorbidities and occurrence of postoperative geriatric syndromes.

The objectives of this chapter are to identify specific postoperative geriatric complications and to discuss measures to improve postoperative care by using the example of the orthogeriatric care model.

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    Sara Thietart, Margaux Baqué, Judith Cohen-Bittan, Lorène Zerah & Jacques Boddaert

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Thietart, S., Baqué, M., Cohen-Bittan, J., Zerah, L., Boddaert, J. (2022). Postoperative Patients: Urgent Surgery. In: Flaatten, H., Guidet, B., Vallet, H. (eds) The Very Old Critically Ill Patients. Lessons from the ICU. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94133-8_34

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