Surviving or Thriving? Tenets of Shared Decision-Making in Communicating Perioperative Risk Prior to High-Risk Cardiac Surgery
Ali Hage, Fadi Hage, Caroline A Magro, Aubrey Galloway · 2026
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Ali Hage and co-authors discuss how to talk about risk before heart surgery in a 2026 paper. Modern surgery can now help patients once turned away as too risky. Risk calculators give numbers for death and major harm. Yet a survivable operation can still leave a patient far from thriving.
The authors argue the talk before surgery must go beyond survival odds. Shared decision making weighs what the patient values and fears most. Frailty, recovery burden, and life quality belong in the same conversation. Their tenets aim to guide honest talks when operating is possible but perhaps unwise.
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| CREATOR | Ali Hage, Fadi Hage, Caroline A Magro, Aubrey Galloway |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |