Geriatric emergencies : a discussion-based review / edited by Amal Mattu, Shamai A. Grossman, Peter L. Rosen ; associated editors, Robert Anderson [and eight others]
The elderly represent the fastest growing segment of the population in developed countries, reflected in the patient population presenting to EDs and hospitals. These patients more often than not have greater co-morbidities, more complicated workups and utilize more laboratory and radiologic service...
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| Other title: | Geriatric emergencies (Mattu) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley/Blackwell,
2016.
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| Series: | Current topics in emergency medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- General assessment of the elderly patient
- Physiologic changes with aging
- Functional assessment of the elderly
- Pharmacological issues in the elderly
- Altered mental status in the elderly
- Geriatric psychiatric emergencies
- Acute abdominal pain in the elderly: surgical causes
- Nonsurgical abdominal pain in the elderly
- Back pain
- Headache
- Dyspnea in the elderly
- Acute chest pain in the geriatric patient
- Acute cardiac disease in elder patients
- Syncope in geriatrics
- Stroke
- Infections
- Dizziness and vertigo in the geriatric population
- Weakness and functional decline
- Emergency department evaluation of falls in the elderly
- Trauma in the geriatric patient
- Surgical considerations in the elderly
- Oncologic emergencies
- Elder abuse and neglect
- Geriatric emergency pain management case
- Ethical issues and end-of-life care
- Geriatric dispositions and transitions of care
- The geriatric ED.