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Elderly patients with multi-morbidity, frailty, and geriatric syndromes : therapeutic problem of contemporary and incoming medicine at intensive care unit (ICU) from the geriatrician's viewpoint / Pavel Weber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weber, Pavel.
- Series:
- Aging issues, health and financial alternatives series.
- Aging issues, health and financial alternatives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Diseases.
- Older people.
- Aging--Physiological aspects.
- Aging.
- Comorbidity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (92 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents a practically orientated survey of major problems of a clinical picture and therapeutic pitfalls in critically ill elderly patients from the point of view of a geriatrician. A growing number of patients of advanced age represent a highly heterogeneous group with very different health problems. For the ICU admitted elderly patients, there are valuable general pitfalls of modern medicine connected with: atomization of medicine; absence of holistic approach and contemporary multi-morbidity when they belong to miscellaneous medical branches according to principal somatic diagnosis or seemingly nowhere.
- Contents:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY AND COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT (CGA)""; ""GERIATRIC PATIENT � PARTICULARITIES""; ""BIOLOGY OF AGEING""; ""DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY AND FUTURAL WORLD POPULATION""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF AGEING""; ""SOME SPECIFICS OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE""; ""IATROGENIA VERSUS POLYPHARMACY""; ""PROBLEMS AND COMPLICATIONS OF POLYPHARMACY""; ""MULTI-MORBIDITY IN OLD AGE AND ITS RELATIONS""; ""ORGAN SYSTEMS IN OLD AGE AND THEIR SPECIFICS""; ""DEHYDRATION � WATER, NATRIUM AND POTASSIUM DISTURBANCES IN THE ELDERLY""
- ""DELIRIUM""""THERMOREGULATORY DISORDERS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61761-650-8
- OCLC:
- 848009724
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