Frailty in Children : From the Perioperative Management to the Multidisciplinary Approach / edited by Mario Lima, Maria Cristina Mondardini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lima, Mario, editor.

Mondardini, Maria Cristina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Surgery.

Children.

Anesthesiology.

Nursing.

Physical therapy.

Pediatric Surgery.

Physiotherapy.

Local Subjects:

Pediatric Surgery.

Anesthesiology.

Nursing.

Physiotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This book focuses on the management strategies of complex conditions of frail pediatric patients. The clinical condition of frailty is usually seen as the physiological and multidimensional decline of organ systems related to age: paradoxically, a frailty condition can also occur in children as a disability resulting from various congenital or acquired diseases. The fragile patients are more vulnerable to developing severe clinical events and often need surgical interventions. Moreover, those patients have significant morbidity and lower quality of life. The improvement in managing fragile patients has improved their life expectancy, but in most health care systems, the passage from childhood to adulthood is a critical point for the lack of medical figures able to provide the continuity of care. The book aims to provide guidance for dealing with medical and surgical emergencies and to develop short and long-term treatment strategies, and will provide an analysis of the different andthe most innovative techniques. This book will be an unvaluable tool for Pediatric surgeons, Anesthesiologists, Critical Care Physicians, Hospital and family Pediatricians, nurses, Physiotherapists and Psychologists.

Contents:

Section 1 Introductory aspects

1. Frailty in pediatrics: definition and care needs

Section 2 Frail newborn infants

2. Premature Infants

3. Newborns with congenital malformations

Section 3 Frail children

4. Frail Children with chronic lung disease

5. Frailty in patients with chronic kidney disease

6. The frail child with chronic liver disease

7. The Surgical Management of Children with Intestinal Failure

8. Children with obesity

9. Frailty in children with oncological disease

Section 4 Operational improvement strategies

10. Operational Improvements in Neonatal Surgery

11. Operational improvement in pediatric surgery

12. Operational improvement in pediatric neurosurgery

13. Fragility of children with severe early onset scoliosis: Description and analysis of innovative techniques with “growing systems”

14. Medical and rehabilitation interventions in childrenwith frailty

15. Operational improvement in Psycology

Section 5 Conclusions

16. Follow-up to ensure continuity of care and support preventive care

17. Social aspects: Sutainability for the patient, the family

18. Transitional medicine, from childhood to adulthood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Lima, Mario Frailty in Children

ISBN:

3-031-24307-2