The peri-operative care of the geriatric patient.
Progress in the medical and social spheres has increased life expectancy by sustaining many who would otherwise have succumbed to congenital or acquired diseases. The number of aged and high-risk patients who require major surgical procedures for the cure or palliation of disease has therefore increased. The physiological and anatomical changes in and peri-operative evaluation of the geriatric patient are reviewed, as are the pharmacokinetics of drugs used in these patients.
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000715:Anatomy; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D007700:Kinetics; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000378:metabolism; D010827:Physiology; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012306:Risk; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations