Geriatric emergency medicine principles and practice
As the global geriatric population continues to grow, an increasing proportion of people reporting to emergency departments are elderly. The work-up of these patients uses more time and resources than that of younger patients, and is complicated by the fact that acute disease often presents more sub...
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Cambridge University Press
2014
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Overview of geriatric emergency medicine
- The geriatric emergency department
- General approach to the geriatric patient
- Resuscitation of the elderly
- Pharmacology in the elderly
- Generalized weakness in the elderly
- Management of trauma in the elderly
- Pain management in the elderly
- Chest pain in the elderly
- Dyspnea in the elderly
- Abdominal pain in the elderly
- Altered mental status in the elderly
- Syncope in the elderly
- Dizziness in the elderly
- Headache in the elderly
- Back pain in the elderly
- Eye, ear, nose, and throat emergencies in the elderly
- Neurological emergencies in the elderly
- Pulmonary emergencies in the elderly
- Cardiovascular emergencies in the elderly
- Gastrointestinal emergencies in the elderly
- Genitourinary and gynecologic emergencies in the elderly
- Rheumatologic and orthopedic emergencies in the elderly
- Infectious diseases in the elderly
- Hematologic and oncologic emergencies in the elderly
- Psychiatric emergencies in the elderly
- Metabolic and endocrine emergencies in the elderly
- Alternative geriatric care and quality metrics
- Functional assessment of the elderly
- Palliative and end-of-life care in the emergency department
- Social services and case management
- Falls and fall prevention in the elderly
- Financial issues in geriatric emergency care
- Elder mistreatment