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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 ASA score

From: Evaluating comorbidities in total hip and knee arthroplasty: available instruments

1 A normally healthy patient

2 A patient with mild systemic disease

3 A patient with severe systemic disease that limits activity but is not incapacitating

4 A patient with an incapacitating systemic disease that is a constant threat to life

5 A moribund patient who is not expected to survive 24 h with or without treatment