Recent advances in geriatric anaesthesia
The World Health Organization defines healthy ageing as 'the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age'. This functional ability is the characteristic of the individual's own physical and mental status influenced by the environme...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Indian Journal of Anaesthesia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2023;volume=67;issue=1;spage=152;epage=158;aulast=Mahender |
| Summary: | The World Health Organization defines healthy ageing as 'the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age'. This functional ability is the characteristic of the individual's own physical and mental status influenced by the environmental and socio-economic factors. Preoperative preparation of the elderly patients includes functional assessment to identify preexisting cognitive impairment or cardio-pulmonary reserve, frailty, nutrition, polypharmacy and anti-coagulation issues. Intraoperative management includes anaesthetic mode and pharmacology, monitoring, intravenous fluid and transfusion management, lung protective ventilation and hypothermia. Postoperative checklist includes perioperative analgesia, postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction. |
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| ISSN: | 0019-5049 0976-2817 |