Mohamad B Moumneh, Yasser Jamil, Kriti Kalra, Naila Ijaz, Greta Campbell, Ajar Kochar, Michael G Nanna, Sean van Diepen, Abdulla A Damluji
Frailty, a clinical syndrome of increased vulnerability, due to diminished cognitive, physical, and physiological reserves is a growing concern in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). It contributes to morbidity, mortality, and complications and often exerts a bidirectional association with cardiovascular disease. Althought it predominately affects older adults, frailty can also be observed in younger patients less than 65 years of age, with approximately 30% of those admitted CICU are frail. Acute cardiovascular illness can also impair physical and cognitive functioning among survivors and these survivors often suffer from frailty and functional declines post-CICU discharge...
March 25, 2024: European Heart Journal. Acute Cardiovascular Care