Esophagectomy mortality rates can be decreased by selecting patients for whom benefits outweigh perceived risk. Frailty may correlate to fitness for surgical intervention [...]

The lack of frailty screening and standardized intervention in the geriatric trauma population increases the risk of adverse outcomes perioperatively and throughout hospi [...]

The United States population is rapidly aging. The population age 65 and older increased from 39.6 million in 2009 to 54.1 million in 2019 (a 36% increase) and is project [...]

Careful selection and optimization of esophageal cancer patients for esophagectomy is necessary and has been shown to improve outcomes. Preoperative frailty measures, bot [...]

Gender differences in presentation of heart failure (HF) remain understudied despite the HF population being equally divided between women and men. The purpose of this ma [...]

As people age, their functional ability and mobility often decline, leading to reduced endurance, balance, strength, and flexibility. This increase in these declines can [...]

In adult heart failure (HF) patients under evaluation for heart transplant or ventricular assist devices (VAD), preoperative participation in cardiac rehabilitation (preh [...]