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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And there’s been some recent research specifically about in fractures for patients that are very frail or have dementia and it’s sort of the same thing.