Perioperative Resilience and Its Implication for Managing Surgical and Critically Ill Older Adults
Resilience is defined as the dynamic ability to recover appropriate function in response to a physical stressor, such as surgery, trauma, or critical illness. I will overview the current evidence underlying the emerging construct of perioperative resilience, it’s age-related changes, and key molecular drivers, including lessons learned from hibernating mammals.
Target Audience
Anesthesiologists & CRNAs
Learning Objectives
- Define the emerging concept of physical resilience and its relevance to perioperative medicine
- Describe specific metabolic and immune potential drivers of resilience, including adaptations evolved by hibernating animals to cope with extreme environmental stressors
- Summarize current status of translating this body of knowledge to the care of surgical, acutely ill and injured patients – describing potential resilience interventions
M. Podgoreanu, MD
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
- 1.00 Attendance