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A Model for Defining Frailty

Resiliency, Adaptive Capacity in Fit, Prefrail and Frail Patients

#Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty #Model
Model for Defining Frailty ... Capacity in Fit, Prefrail ... and Frail Patients ... Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty ... #Model #Prefrailty
Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score

There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously developed tools
Rockwood Clinical Frailty ... definition of frailty ... tools to assess frailty ... . 5 Mildly Frail ... 6 Moderately Frail
How to Measure Frailty in Your Patients - Clinical Frailty Scale

#Frailty #Measurement #Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Scale
How to Measure Frailty ... Patients - Clinical Frailty ... Scale #Frailty
Top Tips to help you use the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

1. It's all about the baseline
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use the Clinical Frailty ... #Clinical #Frailty
Pathologic / Fragility Fractures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Tumours
 - See Bone Lesions Scheme
Paget's Disease
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Pathologic / Fragility ... Immobilization #Fragility
Causes of Generalized Hypoxia - Differential Diagnosis
 • Hypoxemic - Not enough O2 (Most Common)
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Not enough or faulty
STOPPFrail screening tool for deprescribing medications in frail older adults with poor survival prognosis. 

#STOPPFrail #Deprescribing
medications in frail
Cushing Syndrome - Signs and Symptoms
Generalized: Weight gain, Slow healing of cuts, Increased risk of infections,
Skin: Thinning, Fragility
Clinical features of varicose vein disease and Trendelenburg Brodie test for venous valve competence
Varicose veins result
from absent or faulty
Indications for Parathyroidectomy in Primary Hyperparathyroidism
 • All patients with symptomatic PHPT
 • Serum calcium 1
Osteoporosis or fragility