• Anesthesiology clinics · Sep 2015

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    Postoperative Delirium in the Geriatric Patient.

    • Katie J Schenning and Stacie G Deiner.
    • Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Mail Code: HRC 5N, Portland, OR 97239, USA. Electronic address: malcore@ohsu.edu.
    • Anesthesiol Clin. 2015 Sep 1; 33 (3): 505-16.

    AbstractPostoperative delirium, a common complication in older surgical patients, is independently associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Patients older than 65 years receive greater than one-third of the more than 40 million anesthetics delivered yearly in the United States. This number is expected to increase with the aging of the population. Thus, it is increasingly important that perioperative clinicians who care for geriatric patients have an understanding of the complex syndrome of postoperative delirium.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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