Anaes SAQs · Anaesthesia for the co-morbid & elderly

The age-related organ-system changes

Primary physiology — the arterial stiffening and the diastolic dysfunction, the blunted beta-response; the closing-capacity encroachment on the FRC and the blunted ventilatory drive; the falling GFR and the salt-water handling; and the implications for the haemodynamic and the respiratory management.