老年学と老年医学の研究

概要

Anesthesia Research Academics in Geriatric Patients: Need for a Clinical Caution?

Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa

Anesthesia has always been challenging in geriatric patients. The predominant reason being variable pathophysiological changes of aging confer a different degree of response to various anesthetic agents in geriatric population [1]. A basic rule is that geriatric patients are not old adults like the fact that children are not young adults.