Journal of clinical anesthesia
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To obtain information about practitioners' behaviors, perceptions, and perspectives concerning issues related to advancing age and anesthetic practice. ⋯ Despite modest age-associated trends, chronological age per se is not a strong correlate of an individual's practice pattern, behaviors, or perceptions about performance.
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Case Reports
Anesthesia in a patient with undiagnosed salicylate poisoning presenting as intraabdominal sepsis.
An 81-year-old woman with unintentional salicylate intoxication presented with features of sepsis, abdominal pain, and tenderness. Laparotomy was performed to rule out acute cholecystitis. ⋯ The adverse neurologic, respiratory, and hepatic effects of abdominal surgery and general anesthesia probably potentiated salicylate toxicity and increased patient morbidity. Anesthesiologists should be aware of the protean manifestations of salicylate poisoning and consider it as a cause of "medical abdomen."