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Hospitalists should reassure and educate patients and families about PACU delirium, while optimizing postoperative care through evidence-based measures.
Updated AGS Beers Criteria to Ensure Appropriate Medications for Older Adults miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Today, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) released the 2023 update to the AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults (DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18372). The AGS Beers Criteria® serves as a comprehensive list of medications that older people should potentially avoid or consider using with caution because they often present unnecessary risks for this population. Given that, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, United States (NCHSUS), more than 88% of older people use at least one prescription and more than 66% use three or more in any given month, the AGS Beers Criteria® are an important clinical, educational, c and quality assurance tool for clinicians across disciplines and the healthcare system as a whole.
Muscle relaxants are considered dangerous for the elderly and appropriate only for short-term use, but a study found that 13% of older patients prescribed the drugs for surgical pain were taking them 3 months later.