TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Surgery and the Older Adult
A1  - Nye, Heather E.
A2  - Cohn, Steven L.
PY  - 2021
T2  - Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls
AB  - As  the  population  ages,  increasing  numbers  of  older  adults  are  undergoing  major  surgery.  People  over  65  years  of  age  are  more  likely  to  have  medical  comorbidities,  functional  and  cognitive  impairment,  and  other  geriatric  syndromes,  rendering  them  higher  risk  for  postoperative  complications  and  poor  outcomes.  Increased  rates  of  delirium,  cardiac,  pulmonary  and  infectious  complications,  mortality,  and  prolonged  cognitive  and  functional  decline  have  all  been  described  following  surgery  in  this  population.  Based  on  available  literature,  experts  in  geriatrics,  anesthesia,  and  surgery  have  delineated  best  practices  for  the  optimization  of  older  adults  before  surgery  and  for  their  perioperative  care.1–3  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1179531690
ER  -