Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives
Population aging has induced in the last year a corresponding aging inside the surgical population, currently accounting for 45%.50% of the total surgical population in the majority of the advanced countries. This has induced a number of new challenges in the daily anesthesia practice, ranging from...
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| description | Population aging has induced in the last year a corresponding aging inside the surgical population, currently accounting for 45%.50% of the total surgical population in the majority of the advanced countries. This has induced a number of new challenges in the daily anesthesia practice, ranging from the need of implementing specific education in the field of geriatric medicine, organizational adjustments aimed to adapt our preoperative evaluation methodology to the needs older patients present, and a careful redesign of the whole perioperative course for these patients. Today's anesthesiologists are called to became familiar with the aging processes and their impact on the patho.physiological perioperative course, with the concept of functional impairment and frailty and with the dimensions of polypathology, polymedication, and reduced functional reserves. The introduction of new trends such as the team-based approach and interdisciplinary culture are essential to overcome these emerging criticalities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-16f5771e4cb24fc787ac34ce02354d2e2023-10-30T11:57:08ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsSaudi Journal of Anaesthesia1658-354X2023-01-0117446747310.4103/sja.sja_411_23Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectivesGabriella BettelliPopulation aging has induced in the last year a corresponding aging inside the surgical population, currently accounting for 45%.50% of the total surgical population in the majority of the advanced countries. This has induced a number of new challenges in the daily anesthesia practice, ranging from the need of implementing specific education in the field of geriatric medicine, organizational adjustments aimed to adapt our preoperative evaluation methodology to the needs older patients present, and a careful redesign of the whole perioperative course for these patients. Today's anesthesiologists are called to became familiar with the aging processes and their impact on the patho.physiological perioperative course, with the concept of functional impairment and frailty and with the dimensions of polypathology, polymedication, and reduced functional reserves. The introduction of new trends such as the team-based approach and interdisciplinary culture are essential to overcome these emerging criticalities.http://www.saudija.org/article.asp?issn=1658-354X;year=2023;volume=17;issue=4;spage=467;epage=473;aulast=Bettellieducation in geriatricsgeriatric surgerypopulation aging |
| spellingShingle | Gabriella Bettelli Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia education in geriatrics geriatric surgery population aging |
| title | Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives |
| title_full | Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives |
| title_short | Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives |
| title_sort | geriatric anesthesia demographics epidemiology state of the art at international level educational needs and future perspectives |
| topic | education in geriatrics geriatric surgery population aging |
| url | http://www.saudija.org/article.asp?issn=1658-354X;year=2023;volume=17;issue=4;spage=467;epage=473;aulast=Bettelli |
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