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Geriatric men or women with an age above 65 years account for about 20% of the European population, with a tendency to reach 30% in 2030. Life-expectancy at 65 is still 16.7 years, at the age of 80 it is 8 more years. Now we can already find about 40% of geriatric patients in our surgical population, again with a tendency to rise to even higher numbers. Thus geriatric anesthesia is and will be an increasingly important factor in our daily work.
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List, W.F. (1998). Biology of Aging and Anaesthesia. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2278-2_60
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