Abstract
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) recommends using gait speed as a marker of frailty to identify cardiac surgery patients at risk for adverse outcomes. However, a single marker of frailty may not provide consistently reliable risk information. We evaluated the impact of frailty and gait speed on patient outcomes after elective cardiac surgery. This was a prospective study of 167 older (≥65 years) coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and/or valve surgery patients. Patients were assessed using Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) Frailty Index criteria: weight loss, exhaustion, physical activity, gait speed, and grip strength. Frailty was identified in 39 patients (23%) using CHS criteria. Frail patients had longer median intensive care unit stays (54 vs. 28 h, p = 0.003), longer median length of stay (8 vs. 5 days, p < 0.001), and greater likelihood of STS-defined complications (54% vs. 32%, p = 0.011) and discharge to an intermediate-care facility (45% vs. 12%, p < 0.001) but were not different from nonfrail patients on major outcome, operative mortality, or readmissions. After multivariate adjustment, frail and nonfrail patients were similar on perioperative outcomes. Absolute gait speed and slow gait speed using a cutoff ...Continue Reading
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