ReviewSaudi journal of anaesthesia
Anesthesia and perioperative pain relief in the frail elderly patient.
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 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Induction of General Anesthesia with Fospropofol in Elderly Patients Undergoing Hip Surgery: An Efficacy and Safety Analysis.Drug design, development and therapy · 2026Trial
- Individualizing Perioperative Analgesia: Patient-Specific Determinants of Postoperative Pain and Opioid-Related Outcomes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Survival benefit of surgical resection in elderly patients with extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a propensity score-matched analysis.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2026Article
- Optimizing sedation in elderly patients: advantages and challenges of alfentanil-ciprofol for painless gastroscopy.American journal of translational research · 2026Review
- Functional and Safety Outcomes of Third-Generation Zimmer Biomet G7Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- Trajectories of Pain in Low-Opioid and Opioid-Based Postoperative Analgesia in Older Patients-Perioperative Clinical Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Key issues in frailty and postoperative opioid consumption.Journal of anesthesia · 2025Article
- The effects of frailty on opioid consumption after total knee arthroplasty.Journal of anesthesia · 2025Article
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- Systemic inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers as predictors of pain in sequential bilateral phacoemulsification for age-related cataract.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Use of Neuromuscular Blocking Agents in Elderly Patients: A Narrative Review in Geriatric Medicine.International journal of general medicine · 2025Review
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3 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Demand for anesthesia and analgesia for the frail elderly is continuously increasing as the likelihood of encountering very elderly, very vulnerable, and very compromised patients has, ever so subtly, increased over the last three decades. The anesthesiologist has, increasingly, been obliged to offer professional services to frail patients. Fortunately, there has been a dramatic improvement in medications, methods of drug delivery, critical monitoring, and anesthesia techniques. Specific methodologies peculiar to the frail are now taught and practiced across all anesthesia subspecialties. However, administering anesthesia for the frail elderly is vastly different to giving an anesthetic to the older patient. Frail patients are increasingly cared for in specialized units-geriatric intensive therapy units, post-acute care services, palliative, hospices, and supportive care and aged care facilities. Several medications (e.g., morphine-sparing analgesics) more suited to the frail have become universally available in most centers worldwide so that best-practice, evidence-based anesthesia combinations of drugs and techniques are now increasingly employed. Every anesthetic and pain management techniques in the frail elderly patient are going to be discussed in this review.
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