#Frailty

New in @BJAJournals: New data on long term, pt-reported #disability and #frailty after #surgery. Big take home is that ppl with frailty have a much larger DECREASE in disability 1

Thanks Kenneth for your helpful comments. Is there consensus in UK /NHS docs #medtwitter on this? Can we usefully assess frailty in younger adults, given definition of frailty = age-related?

Kenneth Rockwood

Great question; requires some detail. People accumulate deficits across their lives. In young people, many disabilities are “single system” eg spinal cord injury, trauma, cancer +/- chemo. There are many

Tom Shakespeare

NICE Covid-19 guidance says: "Any patient aged under 65, or patient of any age with stable long-term disabilities (for example, cerebral palsy), learning disabilities or autism: do an individualised assessment

Matthew Garrahan

NEW: NHS doctors have been told to "score" coronavirus patients on age, frailty and underlying conditions to decide whether they are suitable for critical care. Big story from @pmdfoster https://www.ft.com/content/d738b2c6-000a-421b-9dbd-f8

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Kenneth Rockwood

Great question. Most key trials preceded the Clinical Frailty Scale. @GrahamEllis247 will know best, but here’s my read. (A 7-part thread; forgive me.) Back in the late ‘70s (when I

George Corfield

Have been getting a bit lost down some Twitter rabbit holes since getting back from work today. It is a shame that DNR / treatment escalation limits seem to be

Casey Bryant, MD

Is anyone else seeing ED volumes come roaring back, but with sicker and more medically complex patients resulting in higher admission rates and more critical care time? What is driving

Talking about frailty at dinner tonight, & also the general public’s understanding of CPR etc.I still think some of the best judges of these issues were the surgeons I worked

May Peterson, Wicked Witch Girl (she/her)

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RIP Sean Connery, the greatest of the Bonds and the role model to a generation. In addition to his extraordinarily handsome face and intimidating physique, Sean had a wicked sense

Kristin H Vinjerui

Excited to share thesis: Socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity and joint associations with mortality in a general population. @theHUNTstudy https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2735980 #socialepi #sdoh #multimorbidity #frailty #publich

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy

This is the decision tool being used for which patients receive critical care as reported by the FT - so it should be known how many dying in ward, how many

Sign the petition to stop the "triage" protocol in Quebec that values only abled #Eugenics #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #Justicehttps://triage.quebec/signez-la-petition/The petition is only available in French so English detai