Dementia and sensitivity to anesthetics

Mashour, George A.; Avidan, Michael S.

doi:10.1007/s12630-014-0166-1

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“…This approach relates as much to good practice when anaesthetising older people as it does specifically to anaesthetising older people with dementia; in the latter, it remains uncertain whether there is altered sensitivity to general anaesthesia agents or not (i.e. whether people with dementia require less anaesthetic agent to produce anaesthesia) .…”

Section: Intra‐operative Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Guidelines for the peri‐operative care of people with dementia

et al. 2019

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Ageing populations have greater incidences of dementia. People with dementia present for emergency and, increasingly, elective surgery, but are poorly served by the lack of available guidance on their peri-operative management, particularly relating to pharmacological, medico-legal, environmental and attitudinal considerations. These guidelines seek to deliver such guidance, by providing information for peri-operative care providers about dementia pathophysiology, specific difficulties anaesthetising patients with dementia, medication interactions, organisational and medico-legal factors, pre-, intra-and postoperative care considerations, training, sources of further information and care quality improvement tools.

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Section: Intra‐operative Carementioning

confidence: 99%