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  title info:
    title: Geriatric Anesthesiology
  name:
    name part: Silverstein, Jeffrey H.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Rooke, G. Alec.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Reves, J. G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: McLeskey, Charles H.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 440p. 141 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Geriatric Anesthesiology highlights both essential knowledge and recent breakthroughs of importance in the field. This completely updated second edition, edited by leaders in this rapidly growing field, is a major revision of the classic anesthesia text. Geriatric Anesthesiology will deepen understanding of anesthetic management of the geriatric patient.
  table of contents: to Clinical Geriatrics -- The Practice of Geriatric Anesthesia -- Demographics and Economics of Geriatric Patient Care -- Theories of Aging -- Ethical Management of the Elderly Patient -- Teaching Geriatric Anesthesiology to Practitioners, Residents, and Medical Students -- Research Priorities in Geriatric Anesthesiology -- Cardinal Manifestations of Aging and Disease in the Elderly -- Alterations in Metabolic Functions and Electrolytes -- Perioperative Thermoregulation -- Postoperative Central Nervous System Dysfunction -- Alterations in Circulatory Function -- The Aging Respiratory System: Anesthetic Strategies to Minimize Perioperative Pulmonary Complications -- Operative Debridements of Chronic Wounds -- Anesthetic Management of the Aged Surgical Candidate -- Preoperative Risk Stratification and Methods to Reduce Risk -- Anesthetic Implications of Chronic Medications -- The Pharmacology of Opioids -- Intravenous Hypnotic Anesthetics -- Inhalational Anesthetics -- Relaxants and Their Reversal Agents -- Management of Regional Anesthesia -- Fluid Management -- Pain Management -- Anesthesia Considerations for Geriatric Outpatients -- Anesthesia for Common Surgical Procedures in the Aged -- Sedation and Monitoring -- Total Hip Replacement, Joint Replacement, and Hip Fracture -- Transurethral Prostatectomy Syndrome and Other Complications of Urologic Procedures -- Thoracic Procedures -- Cardiac Procedures -- Vascular Procedures -- Abdominal Procedures.
  note: edited by Jeffrey H. Silverstein, G. Alec Rooke, J. G. Reves, Charles H. McLeskey.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Anesthesiology
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Anesthesiology
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics/Gerontology
  classification: RD78.3-87.3
  classification: 617.96
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387725277
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72527-7
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