ReviewPerioperative medicine (London, England)2025
The older adult surgical patient: a review of optimization and gaps in clinical practice.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effects of prehabilitation programmes on postoperative outcomes in older adults undergoing major abdominal, cardiac or vascular surgery: a systematic review.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Pooled it
- Clinician Considerations Regarding Surgical Decision-Making in the Context of Dementia.JAMA surgery · 2026Article
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- Does age matter? Acute appendicitis in octogenarians vs. younger patients - results of a German multicenter analysis.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2026Article
- C-reactive protein-triglyceride-glucose index predicts postoperative delirium in older surgical patients: a retrospective cohort study.Lipids in health and disease · 2026Article
- Research Priorities in Perioperative Nursing Across the Lifespan: An e-Delphi Consensus Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Short-term safety and efficacy of revision or conversion metabolic and bariatric surgery in older adults: an analysis of the MBSAQIP database.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Does Chronological Age Adequately Stratify Perioperative Risk? A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study Using Frailty and Handgrip Strength.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Surgical resection for sarcoma in the super-elderly: postoperative outcomes and clinical implications.World journal of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Heterogeneity Within Frailty: Physiological Reserve Phenotypes and Postoperative Recovery After Abdominal Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Prevention of postoperative delirium with transcranial alternating current stimulation: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
As the number of older adults undergoing surgery increases, the perioperative community must address the unique challenges of this vulnerable population. Age alone is not a sufficient indicator of risk and other factors like functional status, nutrition, and cognition also play a crucial role in determining a patient's vulnerability. Identifying high-risk patients requires targeted assessment to identify those who can most benefit from optimization. With an already strained perioperative workforce, integrating comprehensive geriatric programs, which rely on multidisciplinary teams to conduct frailty and geriatric assessments and to target prehabilitation and optimization, is a strategy to improve outcomes. By utilizing comprehensive geriatric programs that combine preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative strategies to optimize care for older adults, the perioperative community can address the unique needs of high-risk older adults to reduce complications, mortality, and healthcare costs while improving the quality of life of these patients. In this review, we highlight strategies to optimize older adults undergoing surgery and identify significant gaps in practice that must also be addressed to improve the perioperative care of this often vulnerable patient population.
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