Should general anaesthesia be avoided in the elderly?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages 35-44

  Strom C ^a   Rasmussen, L S ^a   Sieber, F E ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELDERLY CARE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROMONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE DELIRIUM; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT PLANNING; AGED; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELIRIUM; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELIRIUM; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84893195364     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12493     Document Type: Review

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