Frailty assessment in the acute care surgery population - the agreement and predictive value on length of stay and re-admission of 3 different instruments in a prospective cohort.

Background: We compared the Emergency General Surgery Specific Frailty Index (EGSFI), Risk Analysis Index (RAI-C) and the Katz Index (KI) at assessing frailty in acute care surgery (ACS).

Methods: A prospective cohort of ACS patients was stratified into frail or non-frail by the EGSFI, RAI-C and KI. The agreement between scales were compared.

Efficacy of oral ribavirin in lung transplant patients with respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infection.

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can cause severe lower respiratory tract infection (LRI) and is a risk factor for the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after lung transplantation (LTx). Currently, the most widely used therapy for RSV is inhaled ribavirin. However, this therapy is costly and cumbersome.