Surgery of the elderly in emergency room mode. Is there a place for laparoscopy?

Maciej Michalik; Natalia Dowgiałło-Wnukiewicz; Paweł Lech; Krzysztof Zacharz

doi:10.5114/wiitm.2017.66833

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Surgery of the elderly in emergency room mode. Is there a place for laparoscopy?

Maciej Michalik

,

Natalia Dowgiałło-Wnukiewicz

,

Paweł Lech

,

Krzysztof Zacharz

Videosurgery Miniinv 2017; 12 (2): 115–119

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/wiitm.2017.66833

Online publish date: 2017/03/27

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Introduction: An important yet difficult problem is qualification for surgery in elderly patients. With age the risk of comorbidities increases – multi-disease syndrome. Elderly patients suffer from frailty syndrome. Many body functions become impaired. All these factors make the elderly patient a major challenge for surgical treatment.

Aim: Analysis of the possibility of developing the indications and contraindications and the criteria for surgical treatment of the elderly based on our own cases. Discussion whether there is a place for laparoscopy during surgery of the elderly in emergency room (ER) mode.

Material and methods: The analysis was performed based on seven cases involving surgical treatment of elderly patients who were admitted to the hospital in emergency room mode. The patients were hospitalized in the General and Minimally Invasive Surgery Clinic in Olsztyn in 2016.

Results: Surgical treatment of elderly patients should be planned with multidisciplinary teams. Geriatric surgery centers should be developed to minimize the risk of overzealous treatment and potential complications. Laparoscopy should always be considered in the case of ER procedures or diagnostics.

Conclusions: Elderly patients should not be treated as typical adults, but as a separate group of patients requiring special treatment. Due to the existing additional disease in the elderly, the frailty syndrome, any surgical intervention should be minimally invasive. The discussion about therapy should be conducted by a team of specialists from a variety of medical fields.

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Surgery of the elderly in emergency room mode. Is there a place for laparoscopy?

Maciej Michalik , Natalia Dowgiałło-Wnukiewicz , Paweł Lech , Krzysztof Zacharz

minimally invasive surgery, surgery of old age, surgery of elderly

Maciej Michalik

,

Natalia Dowgiałło-Wnukiewicz

,

Paweł Lech

,

Krzysztof Zacharz