vbid/9783319608617

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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�. The latest anesthesiological procedures, the technical improvements and an increased medical knowledge of the comorbities impact have brought extraordinary advances in this field, but this should�not allow us to forget�that a careful assessment of elderly patients is necessary before undertaking surgery, since also the simplest surgical procedures could alter the delicate psychophysical equilibrium of these �frail� patients. Introduced by a demographic panorama and�analysis, the book describes the anesthesiological management, the preoperative assessment and preparation, the perioperative care,�and hemostasis control connected with the main surgical pathologies: gastrointestinal,�endocrine, neoplastic, vascular and hepato-biliary, as well�with traumatic and non-traumatic emergencies. It will be an invaluable, easy-to-use resource for clinicians, researchers and�trainees alike.Typham this is the title: Surgical Management of Elderly Patients