title: Eye surgery in the elderly.
abstract: Elderly patients represent the majority of the surgical population scheduled for ophthalmological surgery. Eye surgery is usually minimally invasive, enabling most of the procedures to be performed as day-case surgery despite the high co-morbidity of these patients. This, however, requires a specific perioperative anaesthetic strategy. In this chapter we address features of perioperative care in the geriatric population undergoing eye surgery, from pre-medication and pre-operative testing, to choice and performance of anaesthesia, and finally to post-anaesthesia care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich, Nussbaumstrasse 20, D-80336 Munich, Germany. jens.kubitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de
authors.forename: Jens C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kubitz
authors.forename: Johann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Motsch
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000772:Anesthesia, Local / Q000379:methods*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D017214:Laryngeal Masks; D019990:Perioperative Care; D020250:Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting / Q000517:prevention & control