Komal Abdul Rahim, Namra Qadeer Shaikh, Maryam Pyar Ali Lakhdir, Noreen Afzal, Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Saad Bin Zafar Mahmood, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Mushyada Ali, Zainab Samad, Adil H Haider
INTRODUCTION: Older populations, being a unique subset of patients, have poor outcomes for emergency general surgery (EGS). In regions lacking specialized medical coverage for older patients, disparities in healthcare provision lead to poor clinical outcomes. We aimed to identify factors predicting index admission inpatient mortality from EGS among sexagenarians, septuagenarians, and octogenarians. METHODS: Data of patients aged >60 years with EGS conditions defined by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma at primary index admission from 2010 to 2019 operated and non-operated at a large South Asian tertiary care hospital were analyzed...
2024: Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open