num_pages: 255
description: This new edition of Geriatrics At Your Fingertips is a guide to the evaluation and management of the diseases and disorders that most commonly effect older persons.· Fully updated text, with information on new medications released as recently as November 2003· New Information based on current clinical guidelines, such as the 2003 JNC 7 Report· New assessment instrument on medication appropriateness· New table on common herbal and alternative medications used by older adults, with side effects and cautions· New sections on hospital discharge planning, carpal tunnel syndrome, skin ulcers, and syncope· New algorithms on evaluation of hypoproliferative anemia, pharmacologic management of osteoarthritis, pain assessment in elders with severe cognitive impairment, and evaluation of suspected pulmonary emboli
language: English
title: Geriatrics At Your Fingertips 2004
titlecomplete: Geriatrics At Your Fingertips 2004
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell