Justyne Decker, MD
Doing something as simple as making older patients’ preoperative neurocognitive status available to anesthesiologists before surgery can lead to marked changes in perioperative anesthetic management.
These changes, researchers said, included improvements such as reduced high-risk medication administration, increased low-risk medication administration, increased multimodal analgesics, and increased use of bispectral index (BIS) monitoring and age-adjusted minimum