Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
September 2017
Background: Orthogeriatric units have shown through several studies their effectiveness on reducing the morbidity and mortality after hip fracture. What about other emergency surgeries at the elderly? We evaluated the results of a small medical surgical geriatric unit (UMCG) for all the not sheduled surgeries.
Methods: A retrospective sudy has been done, analyzing management of patients over 75 years after an emergency surgery, between 1 January 2013 and 15 February 2014 for the surgical unit, and between 15 February 2014 and 15 April 2014 for the UMCG.