USA: A cohort study of 3,058 patients with perioperative cardiac arrests showed that frailty is associated with increased mortality and nonhome discharge.
Increased Risk Analysis Index (RAI) among patients with severe frailty was tied to steadily increasing the risk of non-home discharge and mortality, and the association with mortality was most pronounced in the context of non-emergency surgery.
The findings of the cohort study, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that although roughly 1 in 3 patients with an RAI of 40 or greater survived at least 30 days following perioperative CPR, higher frailty burden was associated with increased mortality and greater risk of non-home discharge among survivors.
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