Monitored anaesthesia care in the elderly: Guidelines and recommendations

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 477-500

  Ekstein, Margaret ^a,b   Gavish, Doron ^b,c   Ezri, Tiberiu ^b,c   Weinbroum, Avi A ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alfentanil, therapeutic use; Cyclo oxygenase 2 inhibitors, therapeutic use; Dexmedetomidine, therapeutic use; Elderly; Fentanyl, therapeutic use; Flumazenil, therapeutic use; General anaesthesia; Midazolam, therapeutic use; Naloxone, therapeutic use

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALFENTANIL; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAZEPAM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FENTANYL; FLUMAZENIL; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; KETOPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; METHOHEXITAL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROFECOXIB; SEDATIVE AGENT; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANALGESIA; APNEA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRONCHORRHOEA; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEST WALL RIGIDITY; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DENTAL SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELDERLY CARE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LARYNX SPASM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROTOXICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PAIN; PARADOXICAL DRUG REACTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWEATING; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VOMITING;

AGED; AGING; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 44949124482     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200825060-00003     Document Type: Review

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