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- Essential Clinical Anesthesia Review: Keywords, Questions and Answers for the Boards
- Essential Clinical Anesthesia Review: Keywords, Questions and Answers for the Boards
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- History of anesthesia
- Section 1 Preoperative care and evaluation
- Chapter 1 Preoperative anesthetic assessment
- Chapter 2 Obstructive and restrictive lung disease
- Chapter 3 Anesthetic goals in patients with myocardial ischemia and heart failure
- Chapter 4 Anesthetic goals in patients with valvular heart disease
- Chapter 5 Obesity
- Chapter 6 Chronic renal failure
- Chapter 7 Liver disease
- Chapter 8 Principles of diabetes mellitus and perioperative glucose control
- Chapter 9 Common blood disorders
- Chapter 10 The elderly patient
- Chapter 11 Neurologic diseases and anesthesia
- Chapter 12 Anesthetic considerations in psychiatric disease
- Chapter 13 Substance abuse and anesthesia
- Section 2 Airway management
- Section 3 Anesthesia equipment
- Section 4 Patient monitoring
- Section 5 Inhalation anesthetics
- Section 6 Intravenous anesthetics and adjunct drugs
- Section 7 Pharmacology of local anesthetics
- Section 8 Anesthetic techniques
- Section 9 Managing the transition from anesthesia
- Section 10 Regional anesthesia
- Section 11 Fluid and electrolyte balance
- Section 12 Transfusion medicine
- Section 13 Cardiac anesthesia
- Section 14 Vascular anesthesia
- Section 15 Thoracic anesthesia
- Section 16 Neuroanesthesia
- Section 17 Anesthesia for renal and urinary tract diseases
- Section 18 Anesthesia for general surgical procedures
- Section 19 Anesthesia for endocrine diseases
- Section 20 Anesthesia for neuromuscular and collagen disease
- Section 21 Anesthesia for ocular, ear, and throat diseases
- Section 22 Anesthesia for orthopedic and trauma surgery
- Section 23 Obstetric anesthesia
- Section 24 Pediatric anesthesia
- Section 25 Ambulatory and remote location anesthesia
- Section 26 Management aspects of anesthesia practice
- Section 27 Pain management
- Section 28 Intensive care unit
- Section 29 Special topics
- Index
Chapter 10 - The elderly patient
from Section 1 - Preoperative care and evaluation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Essential Clinical Anesthesia Review: Keywords, Questions and Answers for the Boards
- Essential Clinical Anesthesia Review: Keywords, Questions and Answers for the Boards
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- History of anesthesia
- Section 1 Preoperative care and evaluation
- Chapter 1 Preoperative anesthetic assessment
- Chapter 2 Obstructive and restrictive lung disease
- Chapter 3 Anesthetic goals in patients with myocardial ischemia and heart failure
- Chapter 4 Anesthetic goals in patients with valvular heart disease
- Chapter 5 Obesity
- Chapter 6 Chronic renal failure
- Chapter 7 Liver disease
- Chapter 8 Principles of diabetes mellitus and perioperative glucose control
- Chapter 9 Common blood disorders
- Chapter 10 The elderly patient
- Chapter 11 Neurologic diseases and anesthesia
- Chapter 12 Anesthetic considerations in psychiatric disease
- Chapter 13 Substance abuse and anesthesia
- Section 2 Airway management
- Section 3 Anesthesia equipment
- Section 4 Patient monitoring
- Section 5 Inhalation anesthetics
- Section 6 Intravenous anesthetics and adjunct drugs
- Section 7 Pharmacology of local anesthetics
- Section 8 Anesthetic techniques
- Section 9 Managing the transition from anesthesia
- Section 10 Regional anesthesia
- Section 11 Fluid and electrolyte balance
- Section 12 Transfusion medicine
- Section 13 Cardiac anesthesia
- Section 14 Vascular anesthesia
- Section 15 Thoracic anesthesia
- Section 16 Neuroanesthesia
- Section 17 Anesthesia for renal and urinary tract diseases
- Section 18 Anesthesia for general surgical procedures
- Section 19 Anesthesia for endocrine diseases
- Section 20 Anesthesia for neuromuscular and collagen disease
- Section 21 Anesthesia for ocular, ear, and throat diseases
- Section 22 Anesthesia for orthopedic and trauma surgery
- Section 23 Obstetric anesthesia
- Section 24 Pediatric anesthesia
- Section 25 Ambulatory and remote location anesthesia
- Section 26 Management aspects of anesthesia practice
- Section 27 Pain management
- Section 28 Intensive care unit
- Section 29 Special topics
- Index
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- Essential Clinical Anesthesia ReviewKeywords, Questions and Answers for the Boards, pp. 43 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015