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A 7 page research paper that discusses risk assessment for elderly surgical patients. This topic is discussed in general and specifically in regard to such as risks as cardiac and respiratory complications. Also, various forms of risk assessment are mentioned. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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change in body responses and physiology. The goals of preoperative evaluation and risk assessment are to "reduce the risks associated with surgery and anesthesia, to increase the quality (thus decreasing
the cost) of perioperative care, to restore the patient to the desired level of function and to obtain the patients informed consent for the anesthetic procedure" (Garcia-Miguel, Serrano-Anguilar, and Lopez-Bastida
1749). Today, anesthesia is far safer than in the past. In a review of over 100,000 procedures under both general and spinal anesthesia, it was shown that patient and
surgical risk factors were more significant to prediction of 7-day mortality rates than were anesthetic factors (Garcia-Miguel, Serrano-Anguilar, and Lopez-Bastida 1749). This points to the crucial nature of surgical risk
assessment, in general and particularly in regards to older patients, as such an assessment can provide guidance to care that greatly reduces identified risks. An older adult who
is facing surgery has particular needs that directly connected to age-related changes and conditions (Dunn 36). If the patient is fundamentally healthy, he or she can probably undergo even major
surgery without suffering from complications (Dunn 36). However, with older adults, there may be one or more chronic conditions that should be taken into account when evaluating surgical risk and
planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater risk from respiratory failure while under anesthesia and may
require mechanical ventilation postoperatively (Dunn 36). Due to the fact that surgical risk is integrally tied to the "number, type, and extent of coexisting diseases, it is recommended that nurses
should give their patients overall health assessment more focused consideration than the patients age when assessing readiness for surgery (Dunn 36). Furthermore, the type of surgery that the elderly patient
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