Fifty-Five Case Histories in Acute Geriatric Care Bedside Skills & Beyond

Buch | Hardcover

217 Seiten

2013
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62257-141-3 (ISBN)

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During the last decades, as the population grew older, gerontologically adjusted services became the norm for the highest standard of care. The Acute Care for Elderly Unit has been specifically devised to provide trained acute hospital care for elderly patients with geriatric syndromes, disabilities and frailty. Hospitalists and geriatricians find only limited guidance in the literature referring specifically to the management of acute disorders in elderly persons, having multiple comorbidities, geriatric syndromes, disabilities and frailty. For such conditions we have attempted to update the most recent evidence and define the frontiers of knowledge in the volumes Challenges in Acute Geriatric Care' in 2009 and Acute Geriatric Care' published in 2012. Fifty five case histories in this tome provide an insight into acute geriatric care: the patients, the problems and the physicians' skills concerned.

Preface; Introduction to acute geriatric care; Diagnosis on first glance; Erysipelas, cellulitis & other calf dermatitides a bedside diagnosis but not so simple; Skin ulcers; Gastointestinal disorders - red flags; Infectious diseases surprises & mishaps; Venous thrombosis & embolism; Hypertensive spells dealing with uncertainty; Hyponatremia; Miscellanea; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 260 mm
Gewicht	628 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-62257-141-X / 162257141X
ISBN-13	978-1-62257-141-3 / 9781622571413
Zustand	Neuware