Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. So for example, tracheostomies frequently occur in patients who are quite ill, but it’s not the trach itself that tends to lead to the mortality, it’s their generalized illness.
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