Surgery in elderly people: Preoperative, operative and postoperative care to assist healing

• Published in: Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 753 - 765
• Main Authors: Hughes, Sarah, MD, Leary, Antonella, MD, Zweizig, Susan, MD, Cain, Joanna, MD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2013
• Subjects: Aged; Aging; Delirium - prevention & control; elderly; Female; Humans; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Pain Management - methods; Pain, Postoperative - therapy; Patient Discharge; Patient Positioning; Postoperative Care - methods; Preoperative Care - methods; Recovery of Function - physiology; Risk Factors; surgery; Surgical Procedures, Operative - rehabilitation; Venous Thromboembolism - prevention & control; women; Wound Healing; elderly; surgery; women

Surgery for elderly women is likely to increase steadily as the population of elderly people increases globally. Although increasing age increases perioperative morbidity and mortality, the functional age and physiologic reserve rather than chronological age is more important in preventing complicat...