Lean psoas area does not correlate with clinical outcomes in moderately to severely injured older people.

Objective: Frailty has been associated with worse outcomes in older trauma patients. Specifically, the utility of lean cross-sectional psoas muscle area (LPA) was examined as a potentially simple objective measure of frailty.

Methods: Five hundred and fifty-four patients over the age of 65 were admitted with trauma between 2011 and 2014.

Twenty-year review of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening in men in the county of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

Objective: An ultrasound screening program for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) in men began in Gloucestershire in 1990 and has been running for 20 years. This report examines the workload and results.

Methods: We reviewed the screening database for attendance and outcome records from AAA surgery in Gloucestershire and postmortem and death certificate results looking for men who died from ruptured AAAs in the screening cohort.