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Filter by:This study intends to investigate the relevant risk factors of perioperation complications or mortality in older patients with cardiac diseases undergoing teeth extraction surgery and this study aims to quantify the risk factors and then to establish the predictive scoring systems. Hypothesis:Preoperative parameters could predict postoperative complications.
To investigate whether limb remote ischemic preconditioning (LRIP) could safely decrease the incidence of delirium in elderly patients after non-cardiac surgery.
Atrial fibrillation in the elderly is a complex condition due to the high number of frequently associated comorbidities such kidney disease. Direct oral anticoagulants (dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban) are indicated for preventing thromboembolic events but renal function should be closely monitored for this age group when these drugs are used. Dosing recommendations for prevention of stroke are based on renal clearance of creatinine (ClCr) estimated using the Cockcroft-Gault formula. It is well known that ClCr estimates predict a steeper decline with advancing age than Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) estimates. This raises the possibility that substitution of commonly reported GFR for estimated CrCl could result in different plasmatic concentrations of oral direct anticoagulants. The aim of this study was to compare estimates of ClCr and GFR and determine the impact on the plasmatic concentration of these drugs in elderly patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
Procedures for identification of high-risk elderly patients in the emergency department are lacking. We aim to identify early risk factors associated with an adverse outcome in elderly patients who visit the emergency department (ED). Second, we aim to find practical tools to identify those elderly patients who are at risk for an adverse outcome in an early stage (by applying and testing triage and risk stratification scores, clinical impression and laboratory results). With the results of this study, we intend to develop a clinical prediction model to identify older emergency department patients with an increased risk of adverse outcomes.
The analysis of this study will achieve an improvement in the management of patients over 70 years with adaptation of chemotherapy regimens after analysis of the subject and its psychosocial environment. The analysis of socio-economic impacts will implement actions to optimize the care of the elderly while emphasizing the value of management / cost of care.
Management of elderly patient with cancer is a therapeutic challenge and a public health problem. The mean age of esophageal cancer is 64.5 years and 72.1 years in men and women respectively. Surgery is a standard treatment reserved to about 30 % of patients. The other 70 % are considered unfit for surgery for various reasons, including ageing. Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is standard treatment for patients with esophageal cancer unfit for surgery. The validated treatment scheme is external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) 50 Gy over 5 weeks combined with cisplatin and 5FU infusion. However it induces high rates of severe and life threatening toxicities: grade 3 haematologic and esophageal mucositis of 20 and 25 % respectively, in patients with a median age of 64 years. CRT has not been properly evaluated in patients more than 75 years, and other combined chemotherapy are challenging.
Elderly patients with metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinomas have poor prognosis and majority of them were intolerable to combined chemotherapy in China. In the investigators phase II clinical trial proceeded before, the paclitaxel treatment showed good tolerance and efficacy to esophageal squamous cell carcinomas. Radiotherapy has been indicated as a definitive treatment for unresectable or medically inoperable tumors in ESCC patients. However, not only the combination with chemotherapy, but also the boundaries of the clinical target volume (CTV) are not internationally defined. The investigators then initiated a prospective phase II clinical trial with sequential paclitaxel/cisplatin and radiotherapy as the 1st line treatment in elderly metastatic esophageal carcinoma to observe the efficacy and safety of the combination.
This is a non interventional study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Chlorambucil plus Rituximab as firstline therapy in elderly and/or unfit patients affected by B-cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (B-CLL).
Emergence of elderly patients from anesthesia may face with cognitive dysfunction or agitation such as delirium. There are reports that using dexmedetomidine as a adjuvant for general anesthesia decreased emergence-agitation in children and dexmedetomidine may be used for treating deliriums. Thus, we thought that dexmedetomidine as a adjuvant agent may be a help to smooth emergence from anesthesia in elderly. The aims of this study were to investigate the recovery characteristics (time to recovery of consciousness (ROC) and recovery, bispectral index (BIS) values at ROC and orientation, and Ricker sedation-agitated scale at the postanesthetic care unit) and safety (vital signs during and after administration of dexmedetomidine) of dexmedetomidine in elderly patients undergoing elective surgery.
Postoperative pain after cardiac surgery is a risk factor for postoperative complications. In cardiac surgery, pain is more intense during the first 48 hours and disturbs the patient's capacity of coughing, deep breathing, and early mobilisation. It may be responsible for respiratory complications such as bronchial or pulmonary infection, and may also delay the patient's rehabilitation and therefore prolong the duration of in-hospital stay. A previous pilot study performed in our department showed a sensible improvement of analgesia at movement and of rehabilitation with a continuous bilaterosternal infusion of local anaesthesia [Eljezi et al.. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2012; 37:166]. Such strategy shall be tested in a subpopulation of patients at risk for respiratory complication.