Anaes Vivas · Anaesthesia for the co-morbid & elderly
Clinical viva — the comprehensive geriatric preoperative assessment
A clinical viva on the geriatric preoperative assessment — the frailty (the CFS), the cognition (the MoCA), the medication review (the deprescribing), the co-morbidity optimisation, the cardiac and the renal assessment, the functional and the nutritional status, the fall risk, and the shared decision-making.
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Prompt
A junior colleague asks how you assess an elderly patient before the elective surgery to minimise the perioperative risk. Walk them through the comprehensive geriatric preoperative assessment.
Stimulus
A junior colleague asks how you assess an elderly patient before the elective surgery to minimise the perioperative risk. Walk them through the comprehensive geriatric preoperative assessment.
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