title: [Anesthesia for TUR procedures in the elderly].
abstract: Due to the increased life expectancy since the turn of the century also the urological interventions in patients of older age increased in number and thus in significance. Also when a smaller proportion of the TUR-interventions (in most cases only diagnostic measures) can be carried out in local anaesthesia, for the majority of cases a general anaesthesia or a central conduction anaesthesia is necessary. The particular characteristics of the anaesthesia in endovesical interventions, the pathophysiological peculiarities of the senium, the senile involution of the kidney, and a water and electrolyte balance often disturbed by urological complaints are among others the most important criteria which determine the choice of the anaesthesia in a senile patient when TUR-interventions are to be carried out. Based on an experience of many years, it is reported on the results of anaesthesia in 4,130 geriatric patients, among then 2,818 TUR-interventions. On account of the character of the TUR-interventions, of the age of the patient and the factors of risk even nowadays the central conduction anaesthesia, especially the spinal anaesthesia, is more often the method of choice.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000758:Anesthesia; D000775:Anesthesia, Spinal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Die Anästhesie bei TUR-Eingriffen im Senium