| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Part I: Introduction -- Introduction -- Why this book and why now? A rationale and systems impact for geriatric trauma and acute care surgery -- Part II: General evaluation, risk assessment and goals of care (Trauma and acute care surgery) -- General evaluation, risk management, and goals of care -- Part III: Trauma: prehospital care (Fluids, immobilization and transport, triage, OOH DNR and POLST) -- Prehospital care -- Part IV: Emergency medicine -- The role of the emergency physician for injured geriatric patient care in the ED -- Part V: Head injury -- Geriatric concussions -- Traumatic extra-axial hemorrhage in the elderly -- Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Neuro critical care -- Part IV: Spine injury -- Geriatric cervical spinal trauma: History, presentation, and treatment -- Identification, treatment, and prognosis of geriatric thoracolumbar spinal trauma -- Part VII: Orthopedic injury -- Geriatric hip fractures -- Geriatric acetabulum fractures -- Geriatric long bone fractures -- Part VIII: Cardiothoracic injury -- Cardiac trauma -- Geriatric thoracic vascular injury -- Thoracic trauma in the elderly -- Esophageal injury -- Part IX: Abdominal injury -- Liver trauma -- Optimal management of blunt splenic injury in the geriatric patient -- Hollow viscus injury in geriatric trauma: Damage control, surgical management, and critical care -- Management of pancreatic injury in the geriatric patient -- Part X: Vascular injury -- Geriatric cerebrovascular injury -- Geriatric vascular trauma and vascular emergencies -- Part XI: Urologic injury -- Geriatric urologic trauma -- Part XII: Plastics/skin and soft tissue injury -- Plastics/Skin and soft-tissue injury trauma -- Soft tissue infections in the elderly -- Part XIII: Thermal injury -- Thermal injury -- Part XIV: Acute care surgery introduction: Common abdominal emergencies -- System impact and demographics of abdominal surgical emergencies -- Clostridium difficile infection: considerations in the geriatric population -- Acute diverticulitis -- Cholecystitis -- Gastrointestinal bleeding in the elderly patient -- Intestinal obstruction in geriatric population -- Acute appendicitis -- Part XV: Critical care -- Critical care: pulmonary -- Cardiac/Hemodynamic monitoring -- Nutrition assessment and therapy -- Acute kidney injury (AKI) -- Infections in the geriatric person following trauma -- Part XVI: Post-acute care: considerations in disposition -- Perioperative management of the geriatric patient -- Part XVII: Perioperative management -- Post-acute considerations in disposition -- Part XVIII: Nursing considerations in the geriatric patient -- Nursing considerations in general evaluation, risk management, and goals of care -- Geriatric trauma: emergency nursing considerations -- Nursing care of the TBI patient -- Geriatric trauma: Spinal injury nursing care -- Cardiothoracic geriatric trauma: nursing considerations -- Nursing care of the client with traumatic geriatric orthopedic injuries -- Geriatric peripheral vascular injuries: nursing implications -- Geriatric trauma book: urologic trauma -- Geriatric trauma book: skin -- Nursing considerations in the care of elderly burn patients -- Perioperative nursing considerations |
| Summary |
The purpose of this book is to give providers of all levels a simple and essential source of practical information in treating the elderly trauma and emergency surgery patient. The Introduction instructs practitioners how to evaluate and assess risk including frailty and use this information in Goals of Care discussions to facilitate shared decision making so crucial to this population. The individual chapters consist of best practices and care guidelines from some of the most well-known thought leaders and best trauma centers in the country across the spectrum from geriatricians to trauma and acute care surgeons and nurses. Each chapter contains easy-to-read algorithms and references that the readers can use and adapt for their own setting. Chapters on Pre-hospital care will help guide EMS organizations and even systems in the right care and triage of the elderly. Each chapter also contains a Nursing Focus section for helpful nursing tips in caring for the elderly with those injuries and problems. These sections make this book a must-have for any center looking to improve its care of the elderly patient or just trying to be sure its care is already the best it can be. A special section on Post Acute Care will introduce the provider to the common issues surrounding particular disposition destinations for the elderly patient. This will facilitate discussions with families, case managers and facilities to help improve time to disposition |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 29, 2018) |
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Older people -- Wounds and injuries.
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Older people -- Wounds and injuries -- Surgery
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Older people -- Surgery.
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Older people.
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Critical care medicine.
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Human beings.
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Humans
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Aged
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Wounds and Injuries -- surgery
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Critical Care
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Emergency Treatment
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elderly.
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Homo sapiens (species)
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General surgery.
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Critical care surgery.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Older people
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Critical care medicine
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Older people -- Surgery
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Older people -- Wounds and injuries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rodriguez, Aurelio, editor
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Barraco, Robert D., editor
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Ivatury, Rao R., editor
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| ISBN |
9783319574035 |
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3319574035 |
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9783319574042 |
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3319574043 |
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9783030096236 |
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3030096238 |
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