Introduction
Living with frailty is a risk factor for increased short and long term mortality. We aim to describe the uptake of escalation of care and resuscitation status discussions in frail older patients admitted to general, colorectal, and upper gastrointestinal wards.
Methods
Prospective observational study of all patients aged 65 years and over admitted under general surgery 11th February to 11th March 2022 and a second cohort of patients hospitalised between 1st and 31st of October 2022. We scored frailty using the clinical frailty scale (CFS) and identified escalation of care discussions through review of electronic patient records.
Results
We included 196 patients, average age 75.9 (65-97), 90 (46%) females and 106 (54%) males, 107 (54.6%) emergency (EM) and 89 (45.4%) electives (EL). 64 (32.7%) patients were frail (F = CFS ≥5) and 132 (67.3%) non frails (NF = CFS≤ 4). Length of stay was 14 days, 14.9 in F and 11.4 in NF, 14 EM and EL 18.3. Surgery was carried out in 14 (25.9%) F and 33 (40.7%) NF. In total 6 patients died in hospital: 4 F (7.3%) and 3 (3.7%) NF individuals, one without resuscitation decision. Resuscitation discussions had in 20 (36.4%) F vs 4 (4.9%) NF, 19 (16.8%) EM and 6 (6.7%) EL. Percentage of discussions increased in frail patients from 24% to 42.4% overall, and 92% non-frail patients were not offered discussion.
Conclusion
1 in 3 patients in our cohort of older adults hospitalised under surgery were frail. Higher frailty scores were associated with increased in-hospital mortality. 30% frail and 8% non-frail older patients underwent resuscitation discussions. We advocate early proactive discussions of resuscitation status and advance care planning in high-risk surgical patients.
Methods: Objectives: 1.To study time trend, geographic distribution by zone, cities and centres of COVID-19 infection in HD patients , 2.To study age and gender distribution of COVID patients, 3.To study outcome of COVID-19 infection Methods: From March 15, 2020 to November 15, 2020, consecutive MHD patients who acquired COVID-19 infection in a large dialysis network across India in 235 centres across 25 states were reviewed for date of infection, centre city and zone. Threshold for testing was locally determined and was mostly symptom based. The type of test was determined by state regulatory practices and was either RT-PCR or Antigen test. Incidence of infection zone wise and centre wise infection burden was reviewed. Age, gender and disposition of patients: hospitalisation or home-based care were noted. Survival status is reported. Results are described as numbers and percentage Results: n=883 (4.85%)/18200 patients tested positive for COVID-19
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