Population
>165,000 anesthesia procedures at the University Hospital of Geneva, separated into younger and elderly…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
10 years (1985 to 1994)
Authors
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Anticipate greater anesthetic demands from high-risk elderly patients; leaves open optimal resource strategies in this observational cohort.
The increased anesthetic workload over a 10-year period was primarily driven by increased geriatric surgical activity rather than the general aging of the resident population.
Klopfenstein et al. (1998) studied this question.
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