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Recently published multidisciplinary surgical guidelines outline the optimal perioperative management of older adults and highlight the critical role of geriatricians across all phases of surgical care.
This article outlines perioperative surgical guidelines and their application to the role of geriatricians in caring for older adults.
May inform perioperative protocols for older adults; leaves open prospective validation of geriatrician integration and outcomes.
A multidisciplinary panel of experts representing surgery, anesthesia, and geriatrics recently published guidelines for surgeons on the optimal perioperative management of older adults, including recommendations on postoperative recovery and posthospital transitions of care. Geriatricians have an important role in the care for older adults in the preoperative period as older adults consider surgical options and prepare for surgical procedures, during the perioperative period as inpatient consultants, and in the postoperative period as older adults transition to rehabilitation facilities or to home. This article outlines the perioperative surgical guidelines and describes how they apply to the role of the geriatrician in the care of older adults during the perioperative period.
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Colburn et al. (2017) conducted a review in Perioperative management of older adults. Perioperative surgical guidelines was evaluated. Recently published multidisciplinary surgical guidelines outline the optimal perioperative management of older adults and highlight the critical role of geriatricians across all phases of surgical care.
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