A Study of the Correlation Between the Debilitating State of the Elderly and Propofol Sensitivity

In an aging society, there is a surge in the number of surgeries for elderly patients in hospitals, and the elderly are at greater risk of anesthesia due to their own characteristics: slowing metabolism, decreasing resistance, and decreasing physical function, and increased sensitivity to propofol. However, there are large individual differences, and anesthesiologists have found that they cannot judge a patient's sensitivity to anesthetic drugs based on age alone. Patients with different levels of debilitation have different sensitivities to propofol. The use of measuring telomere(definition) length to assess the debilitating state of the elderly is a novel and reliable assessment method. Then the sensitivity to propofol of people with different debilitating states was studied, so as to guide anesthesiologists to use drugs safely and reasonably, with a view to realizing the purpose of precise anesthesia.