Publications by authors named "Coro Mauleon-Ladrero"
Purpose: Analyse the influence of the nutritional status of older patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery on postoperative complications, mortality and mean length of hospital stay.
Methods: We performed a longitudinal observational study including patients older than 80 years who underwent emergency surgery by the general surgery service for abdominal pathology, who were followed by the geriatrics service between September 2018 and May 2021. Malnutrition was diagnosed using Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria, classifying patients as malnourished and normonourished.
Article Synopsis
- A study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of prehabilitation in elderly patients (80+) undergoing colorectal cancer surgery at a tertiary hospital from 2018 to 2022.
- Out of 184 patients, 126 underwent surgery, revealing high frailty rates in octogenarians (50%) and nonagenarians (86%) and recorded a low rate of post-surgical complications and mortality.
- Prehabilitation included physical exercise, nutritional support, and other treatments, showing that prehabilitation for very old patients can yield positive results in surgical settings.
[Efficiency of the acute geriatric units compared to the rest of the hospital departments. A 5-year audit of the case-mix adjusted for diagnosis-related group].
Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol
May 2020
Introduction: Hospital occupancy rate by older patients is high, and it will be even higher in the future. Their hospital stay is usually longer, making it important for hospitals to develop structures with the best efficiency possible.
Method: Hospital discharges of patients older than 75years with the 15 most frequent Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) in Geriatrics were recorded during a 5-year period in a 1,200-bed hospital.
Objective: To compare baseline characteristics and those found during hospitalisation as predictors of functional decline at discharge (FDd) in elderly patients hospitalised due to acute illness.
Material And Method: A review was made of the computerized records of patients admitted to a Geriatric Acute Unit of a tertiary hospital over a 10 year period. A record was made of demographic, clinical, functional and health-care variables.