Importance of perioperative management of geriatric anesthesia

Il-Ok Lee

doi:10.5124/jkma.2017.60.5.356

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Importance of perioperative management of geriatric anesthesia

Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2017; 60(5): 356-357.

Published online: May 22, 2017

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5124/jkma.2017.60.5.356

Importance of perioperative management of geriatric anesthesia

Il-Ok Lee, MD

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Il-Ok Lee. iloklee@korea.ac.kr

Received March 25, 2017 Accepted April 05, 2017

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