By Richard J. Ham MD, Philip D. Sloane MD MPH, Gregg A. Warshaw MD, Marie A. Bernard MD, Ellen Flaherty PhD APRN AGSF
Designed for somebody fascinated with treating geriatric sufferers, this re-creation is still the easiest entire resource for medical suggestions for the difficult geriatric inhabitants. within, you can find a wealth of data at the rules of geriatric fundamental care...detailed, case-based ways to significant geriatric syndromes...and shows of universal stipulations and occasions. what is extra, the fifth version now contains evidence-based drugs that is helping you shape a definitive prognosis and create the simplest treatment options attainable and an advantage CD-ROM containing supplemental materials.
- Incorporates enticing case reports all through to demonstrate the entire rules and key scientific details you want to deal with your geriatric sufferers in addition to their families.
- Features a two-color structure that highlights an important information.
- Provides evidence-based drugs anyplace attainable, supplying you with the main authoritative info on prognosis, therapy, and administration options.
- Features an interdisciplinary standpoint that displays the field's more and more team-oriented method of geriatric care.
- Includes an advantage CD-ROM containing extra colour pictures, evaluation instruments, and assessment questions that assist you hone your knowledge.
- Presents USMLE-style questions in each bankruptcy for speedy assessment sooner than medical cases.
- Uses a constant structure from bankruptcy to bankruptcy that permits you to entry the data you would like fast.
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An in-home chest x-ray examination is performed less than 24 hours after her symptoms start; it is reported as clear. Within another 24 hours, she has overt physical signs of right lower lobe consolidation, tachypnea, and a temperature of 103°F. She has to be hospitalized, at which time a diagnosis of right lower lobe pneumonia is made. After a stormy hospital course, she recovers. In the elderly, an abrupt change in functional status is a vital sign of potential illness. ● People become more unique as they age, so their symptoms and how they perceive them are inevitably different.
1 mg/dl, and a cholesterol level of 234 mg/dl. Radiograph of her right wrist showed moderate osteoporosis and a displaced Colles’ fracture. Her audiogram showed bilateral high-frequency hearing loss, consistent with presbycusis. Although he could not be certain that her severe knee osteoarthritis had caused Mrs. Robinson’s fall, Dr. Hensley believed that it was the major treatable contributing factor. He arranged for her to see an orthopedic surgeon about a knee replacement. Several months later, Mrs.
