Core elements of the perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) model of care.

Purpose: Hospital surgical services that utilise the approach of the perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) model of care improve outcomes for older people contemplating and undergoing surgery. Complex models of care like POPS may be difficult to implement without understanding the elements that comprise that model of care. Logic models can be used to aid implementation by visually depicting theoretical relationships between the elements of the model of care.

Frailty status predicts futility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in older adults.

Aim: To determine if frailty is associated with poor outcome following in-hospital cardiac arrest; to find if there is a "frailty threshold" beyond which cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) becomes futile.

Methods: Retrospective review of patients aged over 60 years who received CPR between May 2017 and December 2018, in a tertiary referral hospital, which does not provide primary coronary revascularisation. Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and Charlson Comorbidity Index were retrospectively assigned.

Cervical spine immobilisation in the elderly: a literature review.

Developed populations are ageing rapidly and by 2040, approximately 1 in 4 adults will be over 65 years of age. This is resulting in higher incidence of traumatic injury in older patients. Cognitive and physical comorbidities in this group can pose significant challenges.