The decision about whether to operate can’t just be based on age, though age-related decline is certainly a consideration. Philippe LeoneIn January, 107-year-old Daphne Keith broke her hip and became the oldest Australian to have a partial hip replacement. This isn’t something you would have heard of two or three decades ago. For Daphne, the decision was fairly clear-cut. Surgery, with all its risks, was a better option than the alternative: to be stuck in bed for the rest of her life. As she summed it up, “What do I have to lose?” But in many cases the balance between benefits and harms of surgery for older people is not as clear-cut. Advances in anaesthetic and surgical techniques (especially keyhole surgery) From https://aubreyflores.blogspot.com/2019/05/surgery-rates-are-rising-in-over-85s.html From https://charlesjohnson2.blogspot.com/2019/05/surgery-rates-are-rising-in-over-85s.html from https://charlesjohnson2.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/surgery-rates-are-rising-in-over-85s-but-the-decision-to-operate-isnt-always-easy/ from https://josephlentini.blogspot.com/2019/05/surgery-rates-are-rising-in-over-85s.html
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Joseph Lentini
In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the supreme being, creator deity, and principal object of faith. The conceptions of God, as described by theologians, commonly include the attributes of omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and as having an eternal and necessary existence. ArchivesNo Archives Categories |