The impact of age on propofol requirement for inducing loss of consciousness in elderly surgical patients
Running Title : Impact of age on propofol requirement
Hua Yang1, Hui-Min Deng2, Jun-Wei Ji1, Xin Lv2, Jin-Chao Song1
1 Department of Anesthesiology, Shidong Hospital of Shanghai, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.
2 Department of Anesthesiology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University
School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Hua Yang, Hui-Min Deng and Jun-Wei Ji contributed equally to this work.
Corresponding Author: Jin-Chao Song, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, Shidong Hospital of Shanghai, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 999 Shiguang Road, Shanghai, China. Phone: (86) 21-25066782. Email: sjch2013@163.com; Xin Lv, M.D. Department of Anesthesiology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200433, China. E-mail: jokul2020@sohu.com.
The authors confirm that the Principal Investigator for this paper isJin-Chao Song and that he had direct clinical responsibility for the patients.
Key words: elderly, anesthetics, propofol, intravenous anaesthesia, loss of consciousness
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