ArticleFrontiers in medicine2026
Postoperative delirium risk in elderly high-risk patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty (ASA Ⅲ-Ⅳ): construction and validation of a nomogram model based on frail frailty index.
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Objective: To create and verify a nomogram for predicting postoperative delirium (POD) in elderly patients having knee or hip replacements based on the FRAIL frailty index. Methods: 582 elderly patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grades III-IV who had elective primary total hip or knee arthroplasty at Yinchuan Guolong Orthopedic Hospital between January 2022 and June 2025 were the subject of a retrospective study. The patients were randomly assigned to a training set ( Results: Preoperative serum albumin (OR = 0.901, 95% CI: 0.830-0.978), age (OR = 1.092, 95% CI: 1.023-1.166), preoperative frailty index (OR = 2.021, 95% CI: 1.612-2.534), ASA grade IV (OR = 2.105, 95% CI: 1.131-3.917), preoperative Chinese Mini Mental Status <27 (OR = 3.608, 95% CI: 1.878-6.931), and early postoperative Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) score ≥6 (OR = 5.998, 95% CI: 3.028-11.880) emerged as six independent risk factors for POD. With AUCs of 0.864 (95% CI: 0.819-0.909) in the training set and 0.875 (95% CI: 0.800-0.949) in the validation set, the nomogram demonstrated good discrimination. Additionally, calibration curves demonstrated good agreement with Brier scores of 0.107 and 0.094, respectively. Clinical net benefit was verified by DCA over a broad range of threshold probabilities (8%-45%). With directional effects in line with clinical knowledge, SHAP analysis identified the frailty index as the most significant predictor, followed by postoperative NRS and preoperative albumin. Conclusion: The nomogram, which is based on six clinical factors, successfully predicts POD risk in elderly arthroplasty patients, exhibiting good discrimination, calibration, and utility for early risk identification and customized prevention.
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