Anesthesiology and Pain Control in the Geriatric Patient

Physiologic changes with ageing in the central nervous system; physiologic changes with ageing in the respiratory system; physiologic changes in the cardiovascular system with advancing age; physiologic changes with ageing in the endocrine system; physiologic changes with ageing in the liver and kidney; pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in the elderly patient; influence of ageing on inhalation and intravenous agents; benefits of regional anaesthesia and influence of ageing on the use of local anaesthetics; pre-operative evaluation and pre-operative medications; perioperative fluid therapy in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for cancer surgery in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for cardiac surgery in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for thoracic surgery in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for major vascular surgery in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for orthopedic surgery in the elderly patient; anaesthesia for ophthalmological surgery in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for urological surgery in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for ENT procedures in the geriatric patient; anaesthesia for outpatient surgery in the geriatric population; post-operative analgesia in the geriatric patient; myofascial pain in the elderly; low back pain and rehabilitative medicine in the elderly; pain of herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia in the elderly; cancer pain in the elderly.