This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Danelle Cayea, is devoted to Geriatrics. Articles in this important issue include: Thoughtful prescribing and deprescribing, Identifying goals of care, Overview of brief, high yield geriatrics assessment for clinic and hospital, Fall prevention, evaluation, and treatment, Cognitive impairment evaluation and management, Urinary and bowel symptoms, Sadness and worry in older adults, Chronic pain syndromes in older adults, Osteoporosis, Evaluation and management of difficult symptoms of older adults primary care, Perioperative assessment and management, Challenges related to safety and independence, and much more.
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In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Louis J. Marino, Jr. and George Zubenko bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Geriatric Psychiatry.
clinicians and patients.28 Table 4 outlines screening tools that can be used to quickly identify UI in the clinic.30–33 A thorough review of all medications, including over-thecounter medications, is essential in excluding ...
Amir E. Soumekh, Philip O Katz. Lactose intolerance has high prevalence among the elderly population. Replacement digestive enzymes exist for lactose and sucrose. Other sugars can be identified and excluded through FODMAP.
He now needs assistance from 2 people to transfer and requires assistance with feeding and toileting. His daughter (who works full time) is no longer able to manage his care needs. He is sent to the emergency department for increased ...
Michael E. Winters, Susan R. Wilcox. Pearls and Pitfalls in the Crashing Geriatric Patient David P. Yamane, MD a,b,* KEYWORDS Geriatric Emergency clinician Critical care Intensive care KEY POINTS The geriatric population is growing and ...
Han JH, Wilson A, Graves AJ, et al. Validation of the confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit in older emergency department patients. Acad Emerg Med 2014;21(2):180–7. Han JH, Wilson A, Vasilevskis EE, ...
CLINICAL CONSEQUENCES OF IMMUNOSENESCENCE IN HORSES Risk of Infectious Disease Although statements suggesting aged horses are at greater risk for contracting infectious diseases are found throughout the nonscientific literature, ...
25. Donnelly T. Disease problems of small rodents. In: Quesenberry KE, Carpenter JW, editors. Ferrets, rabbits and rodents: clinical medicine and surgery. 2nd edition. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 2004. p. 305–8. 26. Anver MR, Cohen BJ.
Acute Pain Management in Older Adults in the Emergency Department Ula Hwang, MD, MPHa,b,c,*, Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MDd,e KEYWORDS Pain Geriatrics Emergency medicine Pain assessment Analgesics KEY POINTS Effective treatment of acute ...