Outcome of Very Old Patients Admitted for Elective Major Surgery, the Effect of Frailty

Haukeland University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery--Complications; Frail Elderly Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Scoring of frailty

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03721471

2018/315

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of frailty in patients ≥ 80 years admitted for elective major abdominal surgery.

Full description

Patients ≥ 80 years admitted for elective major abdominal surgery will be asked to participate in this study where frailty will be scored using the Clinical Frailty Scale and by measuring hand-grip-strength.

Primary outcome is mortality at 30 days, 90 days and 1 year.

Enrollment: 144 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 80+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 80 years or above
• elective abdominal surgery
• informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• age less than 80 years
• emergency surgery
• palliative surgery ( e.g performing entero-enteroanastomosis to relieve obstruction)

Trial design

144 participants in 1 patient group

Frail, non-frail

Description:

Frail Group: Those individuals identified as frail by low hand-grip-strength and/or the Clinical Frailty Scale. Non-frail Group: Those individuals identified as not frail by hand-grip-strength and/or the Clinical Frailty Scale.

Treatment:

Other: Scoring of frailty