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Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care provides a multidisciplinary overview of the assessment and management of the elderly patient presenting with surgical pathology. By utilizing current literature and evidence-based resources, the textbook elucidates the unique nature of caring for the elderly population. The structure of the volume provides the reader with an overview of the physiologic and psychological changes, as well as the impact on the healthcare system, associated with the aging process. Emphasis is placed on the impact of aging, pre-existing medical problems, effects of polypharmacy, advanced directives and end-of-life wishes on acute surgical problems, including trauma and surgical critical care. Special attention is given to the ethical implications of management of the aged. Given that there are few geriatric surgery textbooks and none that deal with surgical emergencies, Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care will be a definitive resource for a wide scope of caregivers for this challenging patient population. The multidisciplinary contributors provide a unique point of view not common to surgical texts. The textbook will be the definitive resource for practicing surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, intensivists, anesthesiologists, hospitalists, geriatricians, as well as surgical residents, nurses and therapists, all who care for elderly patients with surgical emergencies.§

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Geriatric medicine

• Full title: Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care
• Author: Jay A. Yelon, Frederick A. Luchette
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 390
• EAN: 9781461485001
• ID: 02005751
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 1128 g
• Dimensions: 287 × 212 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. December 2013

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