The management of postoperative pain in elderly patients can be a difficult task. Older
patients have co-existing diseases and concurrent medications, diminished functional status …

Maintaining life span and quality of life remains a valid aim of surgery in elderly people.
Surgery can be an effective way of restoring both length and quality of life to older people …

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine resource utilization in
octogenarians undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and compare it with …

Background Delirium is a neuropsychiatric syndrome frequently observed in elderly
hospitalised patients and can be found in any medical condition. Due to the severe …

Introduction and hypothesis Enhanced recovery protocols (ERPs) are evidenced-based
interventions designed to standardize perioperative care and expedite recovery to baseline …

OBJECTIVES: To examine the effects of general anesthesia on the risk of incident
postoperative delirium in older adults undergoing hip surgery. DESIGN: Secondary analysis …

For the intensive care unit (ICU) practitioner, pain management has many unique
considerations and challenges. Critically ill patients often have multiple systemic disease …

Vigilant perioperative physicians must be cognizant of the aging population presenting for
anesthetic care. Because of an increase in life expectancy coupled with improved treatments …

Study objective Hypotension frequently occurs during spinal anesthesia (SA), especially in
the elderly. Phenylephrine is effective to prevent SA-induced hypotension during cesarean …

Prolonged stress response after surgery can cause numerous adverse effects, including
gastrointestinal dysfunction, muscle wasting, impaired cognition, and cardiopulmonary …