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Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-03-30
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This incisive reference systematically reviews the diagnosis and treatment of common surgical and medical emergencies in elderly patients-thoroughly examining surgical interventions, drug therapies and drug prescribing protocols, life-threatening drug reactions, ethical issues, and methods of profiling patients for nursing care. Evaluates disease states and gauges optimal responses to each, supporting recommendations with valuable case studies. Written by over 40 distinguished medical experts, Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient describes ideal patient-physician relationships in critical care settings highlights emergency management of myocardial infarction and cardi...

Clinical Examination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Clinical Examination

Contrary to conventional clinical skill textbooks written in a routine, system based approach, ?Clinical Examination: A Problem Based Approach? breaks that mould by presenting clinical cases in a problem solving manner. The book is composed of in-depth dissections of case scenarios and their appropriate investigations. Written by experts from Australia, New Zealand, US and the UK, this book brings an international perspective to a wide variety of specialties including, gastroenterology, neurology, rheumatology, respiratory and the cardiovascular system. Another unique feature of the book is the chapters on examining the older patient, the joints and the vascular system. This publication is a must-have for all medical undergraduates and postgraduates.The author is a distinguished clinician and educator. He is the recipient of the Order of Australia (AM) 2009 for ?service to medicine and to medical education through the development of undergraduate and professional development programs?.

Geriatrics for Specialists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

Geriatrics for Specialists

This book aims to be a single point of reference for advances in the care of geriatric populations across medical and surgical specialties. The aging population is a unique demographic with its own health challenges. Geriatricians are specifically trained to address these challenges but few medical students or residents enter geriatrics, even as the demand for geriatric expertise increases. The practices of many medical and surgical specialists are dominated by older patients who may themselves see many specialists but rarely visit geriatricians. This updated edition elucidates the most common medical conditions seen in aging patients and translates approaches to those conditions for physici...

Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-06-14
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Contains the most recent guidelines to evaluate fever and infection in residents of long-term care environments. Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities provides numerous figures and tables for quick access to key concepts presents methods to establish infection control programs off

Geriatric Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Geriatric Medicine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

Written by international experts, this book presents chapters that cover common geriatric conditions including dementia, depression, delirium, falls, polypharmacy, incontinence, immobility, and medication-related issues, as well as neurological, cardiovascular, and endocrine diseases associated with old age. The book also discusses various aspects of ambulatory, residential, and palliative care for the elderly, in addition to ethical aspects of old age care, advance care planning and living wills. Geriatric medicine is a rapidly growing field in internal medicine. The majority of elderly people now live in developing countries, where there is an urgent need to up-skill healthcare professionals. By presenting problems as they arise and then discussing how to solve them, this book offers a valuable resource for all physicians interested in the care of older people.

American Umpire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

American Umpire

Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well.

Integrative Geriatric Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 681

Integrative Geriatric Medicine

Integrative Geriatric Medicine summarizes a patient-centered, wholistic approaches to medical care of the elderly. Deeply rooted in life style interventions such as nutrition, movement therapies, and mind-body and spirituality approaches integrative geriatrics allows patients to have different path to their healthcare, one that utilizes pharmaceuticals and invasive procedures only when safer integrative approaches are not available or not effective.

CURRENT Geriatric Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 573

CURRENT Geriatric Diagnosis and Treatment

The most up-to-date source of clinically focused information on the medical care of the increasing elderly population. This text features relevant diagnostic and treatment content needed by every provider of healthcare to older adults. The text covers the major diseases and disorders of the elderly with particular attention to the care of the elderly.

Achieving a Good Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Achieving a Good Death

Death is inevitable, dying badly is not. A good death is achievable, and this book explains how. There is an art to dying well that can be taught and learned. While death is inevitable, dying badly is not. This practical guide to achieving a good death will reduce the fear that often cloaks discussions about death and dying and give readers the knowledge and skills to achieve a peaceful and gentle death. With the multiple options available at the end of life, people can design and direct their end-of-life journey so they have as fulfilling and meaningful life as possible right up to the end and achieve the elusive good death when the time comes. Chapters focus on essential elements of living...

CMS regulation of healthcare services
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

CMS regulation of healthcare services

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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