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Author Weber, Pavel

Title Elderly patients with multi-morbidity, frailty, and geriatric syndromes : therapeutic problem of contemporary and incoming medicine at intensive care unit (ICU) from the geriatrician's viewpoint / Pavel Weber
Published New York : Nova Science, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 82 pages) : illustrations
Series Aging issues, health and financial alternatives
Aging issues, health and financial alternatives series.
Contents Clinical gerontology and comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) -- Geriatric patient particularities -- Biology of ageing -- Demographic analysis of contemporary and futural world population -- Characteristics of ageing -- Some specifics of geriatric medicine -- Iatrogenia versus polypharmacy -- Problems and complications of polypharmacy -- Multimorbidity in old age and its relations -- Dehydration : water, natrium, and potassium disturbances in the elderly organ systems in old age and their specifics -- Delirium -- Thermoregulatory disorders
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Older people -- Diseases.
Aging -- Physiological aspects
Comorbidity.
Frail older people
Critical care medicine.
Aging -- physiology
Frail Elderly
Geriatrics
Critical Care
MEDICAL -- Geriatrics.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Gerontology.
Frail older people
Critical care medicine
Aging -- Physiological aspects
Comorbidity
Older people -- Diseases
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781617616501
1617616508