Emergency Care

An Issue of Geriatric Medicine Clinics

Amal Mattu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2007
Saunders (Verlag)
978-1-4160-4288-4 (ISBN)

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Presenting complex medical, physical, and social issues, this book includes topics that discuss the most frequently presented problems of the elderly in emergency care such as: Abdominal pain; Chest pain; Syncope; Falls; Infections; Hypertension; and Polypharmaceutical issues.

Older adults are living longer due to gains in social condition and medical care with the greatest increases in numbers being the oldest old. The frail elderly face and present to practitioners complex medical, physical, and social issues. The "oldest of the old" adults are more acutely ill and require more complicated care. Topics in this issue discuss the most frequently presented problems of the elderly in emergency care: Abdominal pain; Chest pain; Syncope; Falls; Infections; Hypertension; and Polypharmaceutical issues.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2007
Reihe/Serie	The Clinics: Internal Medicine ; v. 23-2
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, ports.
Verlagsort	Philadelphia
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
ISBN-10	1-4160-4288-1 / 1416042881
ISBN-13	978-1-4160-4288-4 / 9781416042884
Zustand	Neuware