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Choosing anesthesia options for cataract surgery in patients with dementia

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Not all patients with dementia are the same, and Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) helps in staging dementia. Ophthalmologists usually prefer general anesthesia (GA) for cataract surgery in patients with dementia. We evaluated the impact of “Choosing Wisely” initiative on anesthe...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Chandra M., Gopal, Lekha, Seet, Edwin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6495616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057246
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/joacp.JOACP_22_18