Surgical Management of Elderly Patients

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Crucitti, Antonio (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: Surgery.; Traumatology.; Vascular surgery.; Abdominal surgery.; Surgical oncology.; Anesthesiology.; General Surgery.; Traumatic Surgery.; Vascular Surgery.; Abdominal Surgery.; Surgical Oncology.

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the major surgical procedures performed on elderly patients. With advancing age the conditions that require surgery normally increase in incidence, and today all surgeons around the globe can be considered "geriatric surgeons"....