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Geriatric Anesthesia: Podcast with Mark Neuman, Liz Whitlock, and Cindy Hsu
Geriatric anesthesia is a thing. The average age of people getting surgery is increasing. Anesthesiologists and surgeons feel that with new techniques and approaches they can perform surgery on patients at ever older ages, patients who they previously would have excluded from surgery.
One of the key advances in geriatric anesthesia is the use of spinal anesthesia, a form of regional anesthesia that also includes epidurals and peripheral nerve blocks. When older adults experience a hip fracture, there's a growing consensus that spinal anesthesia offers superior outcomes compared to general…
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