Surgical Decision Making in Geriatrics: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Approach

✍ Scribed by Rifat Latifi

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 453
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to all aspects of geriatric surgery within the broad confines of surgery in geriatrics including general surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, surgical oncology, hepatobiliary and transplant surgery, plastic, colorectal, orthopedic, gynecologic, and urologic surgery. The text is split into four parts. The first part is organized under general considerations on the geriatric surgical patient and includes current trends in geriatric surgery, and a number of important general issues such as practical approaches to reversal of bleeding/anticoagulation, role of anesthetic concerns in advanced age, frailty index and measurements of physiological reserves, nutritional support in the elderly, quality of life in the elderly, drug use, and family involvement. Part two of the book focuses on surgery specific system-based problems in geriatric surgical patients. The third part addresses many other important aspects of geriatric surgery including palliative and end of life care for the elderly, religious issues and the elderly care surgery, elderly with mental health issues, and nursing care of elderly patients. The fourth and final part describes the need for geriatric surgical care education and the components that are essential for the curriculum of current and future generations of students.
Written by experts in the field, Surgical Decision Making in Geriatrics addresses patient selection, pre-operative considerations, technical conduct of the most common operations, and avoiding complications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Decision-Making in Geriatric Surgery: More Surgery or Less Surgery? (Rifat Latifi, Shekhar Gogna, Geena George)....Pages 3-13
Is There Room for Common Sense in Surgical Decision-Making? (Ira Bedzow, Noam Stadlan)....Pages 15-22
Emergency Medicine Management of the Elderly (Ivan T. Miller, Susan Boyle, Harry Kopolovich, Anar Shah, Dan E. Wiener)....Pages 23-44
Cardiovascular Comorbidities in the Elderly Undergoing Surgery (Kartik Dhaduk, Ammar Athar, Gabriela Andries, Wilbert S. Aronow, William H. Frishman)....Pages 45-65
Reversal of Oral Anticoagulants in the Elderly (Firas Jafri, Saleha Batool, Kartik Dhaduk, Robert G. Lerner)....Pages 67-75
Frailty Assessment as Measurement of Physiologic Reserves in the Elderly (Kartik Prabhakaran, David J. Samson, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 77-86
Front Matter ....Pages 87-87
Anesthetic Concerns in the Elderly (Sarah C. Smith)....Pages 89-102
Nutrition Support in Elderly Patients Undergoing Surgery (Shekhar Gogna, Jaqueline Maxwell, Anthony J. Policastro, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 103-114
Neurosurgery in the Elderly (Julia Pazniokas, Brianna Theriault, Christian A. Bowers)....Pages 115-132
Caring for the Geriatrics Trauma Patient: The Challenges and the Opportunities (Abbas Smiley, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 133-149
ENT Surgery in the Elderly (Jaclyn Klimczak, Augustine L. Moscatello, J. K. Rasamny)....Pages 151-168
Thoracic Surgery in the Elderly (Donna C. Koo, Francis X. Carroll, Tracey L. Weigel)....Pages 169-180
Cardiac Surgery in the Elderly (Joshua B. Goldberg)....Pages 181-192
Surgical Decisions on Breast Cancer in the Elderly (Maria Castaldi)....Pages 193-203
Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly (Jorge Con, Shekhar Gogna, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 205-210
Inguinal Hernia Repair in the Elderly (Shekhar Gogna, James K. Choi, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 211-217
Abdominal Wall Reconstruction in the Elderly: Techniques, Outcomes, and Pitfalls (Rifat Latifi, Ansab Haider)....Pages 219-228
Bariatric Surgery in the Elderly (Vasu Chirumamilla, Miles Dale, Sarvesh Kaul, Ashutosh Kaul)....Pages 229-236
Vascular Surgery in the Elderly (Sateesh C. Babu, Aditya Safaya, Romeo Mateo, Igor Laskowski)....Pages 237-247
Operative Surgical Oncology in the Elderly: Epidemiology, Opportunity, Outcome, and Ethical Issues (Xiang Da Dong, Samuel Barasch)....Pages 249-257
Colorectal Surgery in the Elderly (Mahir Gachabayov, Roberto Bergamaschi)....Pages 259-282
Liver Transplant Surgery in the Elderly (Seigo Nishida)....Pages 283-294
Renal Transplantation in the Elderly (Thomas Diflo)....Pages 295-302
Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery in the Elderly (Clara Angeles, Danny Lascano, Gregory Veillette)....Pages 303-315
Plastic Surgery in the Elderly (Kaveh Alizadeh, Ashraf Elzanie)....Pages 317-328
Drug Use in Elderly During Surgery: They Were Youngsters Once (James M. Feeney)....Pages 329-337
Urologic Surgery in the Elderly (John L. Phillips, Nikhil Gopal, Jason Elyaguov, Muhammad S. Choudhury)....Pages 339-361
Gynecologic Surgery in the Elderly (Tana Pradhan, Cara Grimes, Gizelka David-West, Alessandra Marino, Stephanie Twomey)....Pages 363-369
Postoperative Quality of Life in the Elderly (Shekhar Gogna, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 371-380
Front Matter ....Pages 381-381
Surgical Decision-Making in the Elderly with Serious Surgical Illness: The Role of Palliative Care (Vincent Finbarr Blood, Matthew K. McIntyre, Christian A. Bowers)....Pages 383-397
Family Involvement: What Does a Loved One Want at the End of Life? (Patrice L. Anderson)....Pages 399-407
Spiritual and Religious Considerations in the Care of the Elderly (Husham Abdelrahman, Mohammad Asim, Ayman El-Menyar)....Pages 409-417
Surgery in the Elderly with Mental Health Issues (Faisal Jehan, Rifat Latifi)....Pages 419-430
Front Matter ....Pages 431-431
How Do We Teach Medical Students to Care for the Elderly (Anitha Srinivasan)....Pages 433-440
Back Matter ....Pages 441-452

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; General Surgery; Geriatric Care; Cardiac Surgery; Colorectal Surgery; Transplant Surgery; Surgical Oncology