Geriatric Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rodriguez, Aurelio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Barraco, Robert. D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ivatury, Rao R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Traumatology.; Surgery.; Traumatic Surgery.; General Surgery.

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 Goal...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Introduction
• Rationale
• Systems Impact
• Comorbidities
• Goals of Care
• Section II: Trauma
• Introduction
• Trauma
• Prehospital Care
• Head Injury
• Spine Injury
• Orthopedic Injury
• Cardiothoracic Injury
• Abdominal Injury
• Urologic Injury
• Plastics/Skin and Soft Tissue Injury
• Thermal Injury
• Section III: Acute Care Surgery
• Background
• Common Abdominal Emergencies
• Section IV: Post-Acute Care
• Considerations in Disposition.