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Geriatric Anesthesia, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 41-3 - August 1, 2023
- Editor: Shamsuddin Akhtar
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 1 7 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 1 8 0 - 1
In this issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, guest editor Dr. Shamsuddin Akhtar brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Geriatric Anesthesia. Top experts in the field cover… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, guest editor Dr. Shamsuddin Akhtar brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Geriatric Anesthesia. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as cardiovascular changes in the elderly; perioperative pulmonary complications in the elderly; frailty, sarcopenia, aging, and perioperative outcomes; perioperative delirium; and more.
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Contains 18 relevant, practice-oriented topics including central nervous system changes in the elderly: new Insights; data science and geriatric anesthesia research: opportunity and challenges; aging, COVID, and perioperative care; balancing efficiency, empathy, safety, and quality; pain management in the elderly; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on geriatric anesthesia, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Anesthesiologists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Perioperative Pulmonary Complications in the Elderly: The Forgotten System
- Key points
- Background and definitions
- Physiologic changes of the aging pulmonary system
- Pulmonary system comorbidities and aging
- Preoperative risk stratification
- Prehabilitation
- Intraoperative strategies
- Postoperative strategies
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Changes in the Elderly: Impact on Anesthetics
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pharmacokinetic changes in the elderly
- Age as a covariate in pharmacokinetic models for anesthetic drugs
- Pharmacodynamic changes in the elderly
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Update on Perioperative Delirium
- Key points
- Introduction
- Frailty and cognitive impairment
- Frailty and aging
- Postoperative delirium and frailty
- Frailty scales and instruments
- Type of anesthesia and postoperative delirium
- Delirium and long-term cognition
- Delirium and functional recovery
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices in the Elderly
- Key points
- Introduction
- Malignancies
- Nutritional status
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding statement
- Declaration of interests
- Liver Transplantation and the Elderly Candidate: Perioperative Considerations
- Key points
- Introduction
- Age, ageing, and frailty
- Age, frailty, and sarcopenia in end-stage liver disease: the challenge of the liver transplant indication
- Liver transplantation in the older candidate: what anesthesiologists should know
- Liver transplantation and the elderly candidate: anesthesiologist point of view
- Neurologic and neuropsychiatric assessment
- The cardiovascular profile of the older candidate and its assessment: still waiting for a consensus
- The functional assessment in the older candidate: the way to enhanced recovery after surgery
- The perioperative period of liver transplantation: facing a marathon!
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Conflicts of interest
- Perioperative Fluid Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Data Science and Geriatric Anesthesia Research: Opportunity and Challenges
- Key points
- Introduction
- What is data science?
- Types of databases
- Opportunities in geriatric anesthesia research
- Research considerations
- Challenges
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Conflicts of interest and sources of funding
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Elderly Patients: Advances
- Key points
- Introduction and a brief history
- Mechanisms behind the results of enhanced recovery after surgery
- The enhanced recovery after surgery guidelines—spreading across surgery
- Why enhanced recovery after surgery has become the focus in surgery and anesthesia?
- Experiences in making enhanced recovery after surgery work in practice
- Enhanced recovery after surgery and the elderly
- Summary and thoughts for the future
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Efficiency, Safety, Quality, and Empathy: Balancing Competing Perioperative Challenges in the Elderly
- Key points
- Introduction
- The physiologic changes of aging
- Efficiency in the elderly
- Safety and quality: designing safety II systems
- Empathy
- The immutable progression of demography
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Contribution
- Attestation
- Conflicts of interest
- Pain Management in the Elderly: A Narrative Review
- Key points
- Introduction
- Methods
- Prevalance
- Cause and pathogenesis
- Pain assessment tools
- Pain management in inpatient settings
- Pain management in outpatient settings
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding sources
- Conflicts of interest
- Financial disclosures
- Authors’ statement
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 41-3
- Published: August 1, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443181795
- eBook ISBN: 9780443181801
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Shamsuddin Akhtar
Affiliations and expertise
Dept of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Critical Care Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA