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Review
[Anesthesia for geriatric patients : Part 2: anesthetics, patient age and anesthesia management].
- A Herminghaus, S Löser, and W Wilhelm.
- Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Klinikum Lünen - St.-Marien-Hospital, Lünen, Deutschland.
- Anaesthesist. 2012 Apr 1;61(4):363-74.
AbstractPart 2 of this review on geriatric anesthesia primarily describes the multiple influences of age on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of different anesthetic agents and their impact on clinical practice. In the elderly the demand for opioids is reduced by almost 50% and with total intravenous anesthesia the dosages of propofol and remifentanil as well as recovery times are more determined by patient age than by body weight. As a result depth of anesthesia monitoring is recommended for geriatric patients to individually adjust the dosing to patients needs. With muscle relaxants both delayed onset of action and prolonged duration of drug effects must be considered with increasing age and as this may lead to respiratory complications, neuromuscular monitoring is highly recommended. The following measures appear to be beneficial for geriatric patients: thorough preoperative assessment, extended hemodynamic monitoring, use of short-acting anesthetics in individually adjusted doses best tailored by depth of anesthesia monitoring, intraoperative normotension, normothermia and normocapnia, complete neuromuscular recovery at the end of the procedure and well-planned postoperative pain management in order to reduce or avoid the use of opioids.
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