Overview
- Written by experts in the fields
- Provides best practices for care of the elderly
- Resource for developing geriatric models of care
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Surgical and Related Specialties
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This book focuses on the circumstances that lead to the marked increased vulnerability of seniors and are most challenging to clinicians including the presence of multiple chronic medical conditions, variable losses of physiological function, and heterogeneity among individuals. Written by the experts who lead the initiative to deliver high quality surgical and medical care to the elderly, Geriatrics for Specialists is the first book of its kind to provide the comprehensive knowledge specialists and associated generalists need to deliver quality health care to seniors. With topics on important cross cutting issues like frailty, delirium and polypharmacy and specialty chapters on emergency medicine, anesthesia, many surgical and medical disciplines and rehabilitation, this book provides clinicians the knowledge and tools needed to evaluate, treat and manage the unique needs of seniors.
Geriatrics for Specialists was created as a resource for specialist, generalists and allied health professionals and their students and trainees who care for elderly patients.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John R. Burton, MD
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Mason F. Lord Building, Center Tower, 7th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21224-2735
Andrew G. Lee, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, andNeurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, UTMB and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Iowa
Chair, Blanton Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX 77030
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geriatrics for Specialists
Editors: John R. Burton, Andrew G. Lee, Jane F. Potter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31831-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81130-7Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31831-8Published: 14 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 350
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Nursing