Risk of operative mortality

Risk of operative mortality

The Thoracic Surgery Scoring System (Thoracoscore) is the most widely used model to assess the risk of operative mortality in thoracic patients. Risk is calculated based on nine variables – age, sex, American Society of Anesthesiologists score, perfor - mance status, dyspnoea score, priority of surgery , extent of surgery , malignant diagnosis and composite comorbidity score. It is currently the most robust model available to estimate the risk of death when considering patients f or thoracic surgery .