Resumen de Anesthesia in the Elderly Patient Undergoing Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

Takumi Codere-Maruyama, Albert Moore

• The proportion of geriatric patients presenting for surgery will continue to increase.

  The loss of functional reserve in the elderly has important clinical implications on the perioperative course.

  Mortality, morbidity, and the incidence of cognitive dysfunction is higher in the elderly, particularly in the frail patient.

  Preliminary evidence suggests that perioperative outcomes in the elderly can be improved with targeted interventions in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods.