Eye surgery in the elderly.
The overall risk of eye surgery is quite low, and surgery can generally be performed in all but the sickest patients. Ambulatory eye surgery is now the rule rather than the exception and is generally well tolerated under local anesthesia. It is important for the consultant to remember those conditions that will increase morbidity and appropriately inform the ophthalmologist and anesthesiologist.
Adler
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Department of Medicine, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kountz
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D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D012307:Risk Factors