학술논문
The Best Way to Deal Is with Cold Steel...Is It?—Ways of Dealing with Age and Ageing in Cardiac Surgery.
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Article
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Subject
*CARDIAC surgery
*WOUND infections
*HEART valve prosthesis implantation
*TRICUSPID valve surgery
*BLOOD vessel prosthesis
*MITRAL valve surgery
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2077-0383
Abstract
By setting strict thresholds for certain procedural and outcome variables, high-risk patients, such as elderly patients, will eventually be denied treatment in order to stay within the set limits and thus avoid sanctions. A brand-new multicentre trial is currently underway in which elective patients are enrolled in rehabilitation before surgery to get them ready for surgery [[17]]. The time for shrugging shoulders in the treatment of ageing patients is over; the time is ripe for clear strategies to define, assess, stratify, and treat the ageing patient. It may well be that at some point health systems can no longer afford to provide every patient with expensive treatment methods and set age limits for reasons of fairness towards younger patients in need of treatment. [Extracted from the article]