Pre-Anaesthetic Evaluation of Geriatric Patients for Emergency Orthopaedic Surgery: Biopsychosocial Perspective

Copyright: © 2013 Bajwa SJS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Advancements in medicine, better diagnostic and therapeutic facilities and ever increasing awareness about disease states have increased the life expectancy throughout the globe with a resultant increase in geriatric population presenting for elective and emergency surgical procedures. One-fourth of all trauma victims in US are above 65 years which also does account for the 5th leading cause of mortality in this demographic age group. The higher morbidity and mortality in this age group mainly occurs due to associated co-morbidities [1-3]. Emergency geriatric orthopaedic surgery is a clinical, socio-behavioral and economic challenge in developing nations. The ratio of resource utilization is grossly affected which puts a huge burden on the health budgets and medical services.