Preoperative frailty assessment: just do it!

Daniel I McIsaac^{1

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3

4}, Alexa L Grudzinski⁵, Sylvie D Aucoin^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
² Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
³ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, 1053 Carling Ave, Room B311, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁶ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Editorial

Daniel I McIsaac et al. Can J Anaesth. 2023 Nov.

. 2023 Nov;70(11):1713-1718.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02589-x. Epub 2023 Oct 9.

Daniel I McIsaac^{1

2

3

4}, Alexa L Grudzinski⁵, Sylvie D Aucoin^{5

6}

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
² Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
³ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, 1053 Carling Ave, Room B311, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9, Canada. dmcisaac@toh.ca.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁶ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

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Comment in

Don't just do something, stand there!
Prabhakar C, Ree RM. Prabhakar C, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2024 Apr;71(4):563-564. doi: 10.1007/s12630-024-02731-3. Epub 2024 Mar 18. Can J Anaesth. 2024. PMID: 38498255 No abstract available.

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