Elderly patients with multi-morbidity, frailty, and geriatric syndromes
Subtitle: therapeutic problem of contemporary and incoming medicine at intensive care unit (ICU) from the geriatrician's viewpoint
By: Pavel Weber
Publisher: Nova Science
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781617611766
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clinical gerontology and comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA); title: Geriatric patient particularities; title: Biology of ageing; title: Demographic analysis of contemporary and futural world population; title: Characteristics of ageing; title: Some specifics of geriatric medicine; title: Iatrogenia versus polypharmacy; title: Problems and complications of polypharmacy; title: Multimorbidity in old age and its relations; title: Dehydration : water, natrium, and potassium disturbances in the elderly organ systems in old age and their specifics; title: Delirium; title: Thermoregulatory disorders.