Fractures in the Elderly A Guide to Practical Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pignolo, Robert J. (Editor), Keenan, Mary Ann (Editor), Hebela, Nader M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2011.
• Series: Aging Medicine
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Geriatrics.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Internal Medicine.

Fractures in the Elderly: A Guide to Practical Management provides geriatricians and other medical specialists who provide care for older adults with the vital guidance and most current data and opinions regarding the treatment of elderly patients who sustain a variety of fractures. It also provides...

Table of Contents:

• Osteobiology of Aging
• Pathologic Fractures
• Falls
• Preoperative Assessment of Risk
• Anticoagulation
• Prevention and Management of Perioperative Delirium
• Anesthesia and Postoperative Pain Control
• Postoperative Complications
• Hand and Wrist Fractures
• Humerus and Elbow Fractures
• Vertebral Fractures
• Hip Fractures
• Distal Femur Fractures
• Tibial Plateau Fractures
• Recovery and Fracture Rehabilitation
• Evaluation of Bone Fragility and Fracture Prevention.