High Risk Surgical Patients

Abstract

These high risk patients are more brittle, less adaptable, and less able to compensate for any surgical injury.

A step in the right direction – Orthopaedic trauma

“…Mortality and morbidity rates for elderly patients have been found to be much higher than in other age groups (Miller cited in Jackson 1987). Delmi (1990) further suggests that the increased number of elderly patients with fractures may not merely be due to demographic factors, but malnutrition may be an important determinant of both the incidence and complications of hip fractures.…”