Cardiopulmonary aspects of anaesthesia for the elderly

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 329-354

  Corcoran, Tomás B ^a,b   Hillyard, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

anaesthesia; arterio ventricular coupling; arteriosclerosis; beta blockade; diastolic dysfunction; echocardiography; hypertension; myocardium

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DESFLURANE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NEOSTIGMINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRATE; NITROUS OXIDE; POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SUGAMMADEX; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; AORTA VALVE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GAS EXCHANGE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG MECHANICS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STROKE; THORAX WALL; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 80053030512     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2011.07.002     Document Type: Review

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