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ReviewSaudi journal of anaesthesia

The elderly in the post-anesthesia care unit.

Abdulkareem S Alghamdi, Hisham Almuzayyen, Tumul Chowdhury

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Review in Saudi journal of anaesthesia. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Abdulkareem S AlghamdiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Hisham AlmuzayyenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Tumul ChowdhuryAssociate Professor, Staff Anesthesiologist, Toronto Western Hospital, Clinical Investigator, UHN, University of Toronto, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is increasingly conceivable that elderly patients will be treated in perioperative settings as the world's population shifts toward an older age distribution. They are more prone to a variety of unfavorable outcomes as a consequence of the physiological changes that accompany aging and the coexistence of multiple medical conditions. Postoperative complications in elderly patients are linked to a large increase in morbidity and mortality and the burden placed on the healthcare system. Our goal is to determine how elderly patients' recovery after anesthesia differs from that of younger patients. In addition, we will discuss the main postoperative complications experienced by elderly patients and the measures that are utilized to limit the risk of these complications developing.

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AginganesthesiadeliriumelderlygeriatricICUintensive care unitmyocardial infarctionPACUpost-anesthesia care unitpostoperative complicationsrecoverysurgery

Identifiers

PMID37779571
PMCPMC10540998

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