Anaesthesia for the elderly patient

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 196-201

  Sophie, Salma ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CISATRACURIUM; ETOMIDATE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MIVACURIUM; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PETHIDINE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; BREATHING MUSCLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRYOANESTHESIA; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GERIATRIC SURGERY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART OUTPUT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER FUNCTION; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MEDICAL ETHICS; METABOLISM; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NUTRITION; OXYGENATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; VEIN COMPLIANCE; ANESTHESIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANESTHESIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34249711478     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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