 The Anesthesiology department at WFUSM, in conjunction with the Geriatrics department, was awarded the Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents Program (GSR) grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation and the American Geriatrics Society. This two-year award is an initiative designed to better prepare surgical and other specialty medical residents to care for elderly patients.
Residents will be taught by a multidisciplinary team in the form of lectures, case-studies, journal club (Geriatric Fluid Rounds), web-based modules, and simulation. Some of the topics addressed include: cardiovascular aging, postoperative delirium vs. dementia, polypharmacy, trauma, preoperative optimization, and acute and chronic pain management in the older adult.
The goal of the AIA is to improve residents’ understanding of the physiologic changes of aging, and the recommended considerations and modifications of anesthetic technique, in order to help contribute to an ever-improving outcome for the geriatric-surgical population. The geriatric patient is not simply an older adult, but rather, a truly different physiologic entity!
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