Frailty as a Cardiovascular Compass 🧭📉🩻

🚨 Frailty matters — even in the cath lab! 🧓🫀   A new NCDR registry analysis of 1.3M+ older adults shows a clear gradient: as frailty increases, so do complications, mortality, and procedural risks during PCI. Severely frail patients faced a striking 20.3% in-hospital mortality and >50% mortality with cardiogenic shock.   🧠 It's time to treat frailty as a vital sign — embedded in our workflow, guiding shared decisions, and shaping post-PCI care.   📊 Let's bring team-based, geriatric-informed strategies to the forefront of interventional cardiology.   #Cardiology #Frailty #PCI #PrecisionMedicine #AgingWell #GeriatricCardiology #NCDR #HealthcareInnovation #PatientCenteredCare