Geriatric anesthesia: Demographics, epidemiology, state of the art at international level, educational needs, and future perspectives

Population aging has induced in the last year a corresponding aging inside the surgical population, currently accounting for 45%.50% of the total surgical population in the majority of the advanced countries. This has induced a number of new challenges in the daily anesthesia practice, ranging from...

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Published in:Saudi journal of anaesthesia 2023-10, Vol.17 (4), p.467-473
Main Author: Bettelli, Gabriella
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged patients
Anesthesia
education in geriatrics
Epidemiology
geriatric surgery
Geriatrics
population aging
Review
Surgery
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Summary:Population aging has induced in the last year a corresponding aging inside the surgical population, currently accounting for 45%.50% of the total surgical population in the majority of the advanced countries. This has induced a number of new challenges in the daily anesthesia practice, ranging from the need of implementing specific education in the field of geriatric medicine, organizational adjustments aimed to adapt our preoperative evaluation methodology to the needs older patients present, and a careful redesign of the whole perioperative course for these patients. Today's anesthesiologists are called to became familiar with the aging processes and their impact on the patho.physiological perioperative course, with the concept of functional impairment and frailty and with the dimensions of polypathology, polymedication, and reduced functional reserves. The introduction of new trends such as the team-based approach and interdisciplinary culture are essential to overcome these emerging criticalities.
ISSN:1658-354X
0975-3125
DOI:10.4103/sja.sja_411_23