• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Feb 2020

    Review

    Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in older adults.

    • Petra A Thürmann.
    • Helios University Hospital Wuppertal, Chair of Clinical Pharmacology, University Witten/Herdecke, Wuppertal, Germany.
    • Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2020 Feb 1; 33 (1): 109-113.

    Purpose Of ReviewWith the growing of the aging population, increased and new methods of anesthesia and surgery allow for surgery and other interventions in older adults.Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in older adults differ from those in younger and middle-aged adults. However, the geriatric population is frequently neglected in the context of clinical trials. The present review focuses on the consequences of multimorbidity and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic alterations and their implications on anesthesia.Recent FindingsPhysiologically based pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling may serve as an option to better understand the influence of age on drugs used for anesthesia. However, difficulties to adequately characterize geriatric patients are described.SummaryFurther research of drug effects in the aging population may include physiologically based pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic complex models and randomized controlled trials with thoroughly conducted geriatric assessments.

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