eBook - ePub
Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient
- 536 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient
About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient by Thomas T. Yoshikawa,Dean C. Norman, Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Dean C. Norman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Emergency Medicine & Critical Care. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- 1: RELEVANCE OF AGING ISSUES IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
- 2: ETHICS IN EMERGENCY CARE OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS
- 3: DRUG DOSING AND LIFE-THREATENING DRUG REACTIONS IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT
- 4: ACUTE AND CRITICAL NURSING CARE
- 5: EMERGENCY PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION
- 6: EMERGENCY ANESTHESIA
- 7: TRAUMATIC INJURIES
- 8: CRITICAL CARE OF THE HIP FRACTURE PATIENT
- 9: ACUTE CONDITIONS OF THE ABDOMEN
- 10: ACUTE VASCULAR EMERGENCIES
- 11: MANAGEMENT OF SHOCK
- 12: CARDIAC EMERGENCIES
- 13: HYPERTENSIVE CRISES
- 14: ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE
- 15 Acute Renal Failure
- 16: ALTERATIONS IN ELECTROLYTES AND ACID-BASE HOMEOSTASIS WITH AGING
- 17: HYPEROSMOLAR HYPERGLYCEMIA AND DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS
- 18: INFECTIOUS DISEASE EMERGENCIES
- 19: GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE
- 20: NEUROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES
- 21: PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES
- 22: ACUTE VISION IMPAIRMENT OR LOSS
- 23: HYPOTHERMIA AND HYPERTHERMIA
- 24: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
- 25: ACUTE HOSPITAL CARE: FUTURE DIRECTIONS