Vascular Disease in Older Adults

Synopsis

This book presents acomprehensive and state-of the-art approach to vascular disease for the geriatricpatient, focusing on vascular pathology and interventions but also onperioperative care, anesthetic care, functional outcomes and quality of life,as well as ethical considerations that impact decision making. The bookaddresses open and endovascular interventions in different vascular beds, aswell as preoperative workup and optimization, anesthetic considerations, allaspects and expectations of the postoperative care and recovery and is the onlybook to include specialize in the intricacies of the care of the geriatricpatients, the challenging recovery and neurocognitive changes, and ethicalconsiderations for the end stage geriatric patient or in the setting ofpostoperative complications. Written by experts in the field, each section addressespatient selection, pre-operative considerations, technical conduct of the mostcommon operations with open or endovascular options, and avoidingcomplications. A brief review of the existing literature addressing theparticular topic follows in each section. Extensive illustrations, angiographicimages, and treatment algorithms, as well as a summary bullet point table ofthe key messages at the end of each chapter makes this an interactive text. With its concise yetcomprehensive summary of the field, Care of the Elderly Patient With VascularDisease is the ultimate resource for physicians of different specialties whocare for the geriatric patient with vascular disease.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783319292854

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing, Cham

Date of Addition:

04/11/17

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Medicine

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.