This innovative, comprehensive book covers the key elements of perioperative management of older patients. The book's chapter structure coincides with the clinical path patients tread during their treatment, from preoperative evaluation to post-hospital care. Epidemiological aspects and aging processes are illustrated, providing keys to understanding the quick expansion of geriatric surgery and defining the clinical profile of older surgical patients in a cybernetic perspective. Preoperative evaluation and preparation for surgery, including medication reconciliation and pre-habilitation, are developed in the light of supporting decision-making about surgery in an evidence-based and patient-focused way.
Intra- and postoperative management are discussed, aiming to tailor anesthetic, surgical and nursing approaches to specific patients' needs, in order to prevent both general and age-related complications. This volume also addresses issues relevant to geriatric surgery, from different organizational models to clinical risk management and systems engineering applied to hospital organization.
- Discusses areas of anesthesiological interest while developing aspects of surgery, geriatric medicine and nursing
- Provides anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses and geriatricians with the cultural tools that are needed to perform preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management and postoperative pain and intensive care treatment
- Addresses organizational issues relevant to geriatric surgery and describes both patient management and the basics of various procedures and techniques
Contributors
Gabriella Bettelli, Domenico Cucinotta, Bruno Neuner, Giancarlo Ghironzi, Jaume Canet Capeta, Ana Fernández Cortés, Judith Cohen-Bittan, Hélène Vallet, Lorene Zerah, Jacques Boddaert, Guillaume Bousquet-Dion, Francesco Carli, Giovanni Zuliani, Amedeo Zurlo, Maurizio Solca, S. Festen, P. de Graeff, J. A. Ijzerman, B. L. van Leeuwen, Concezione Tommasino, Andrea Falvo, Valeria Frisenda, Cesare Gregoretti, Luca Brazzi, Enrico Maria Minnella, Eleonora F. Orena, Anastasia Borozdina, Federico Bilotta, May Karam, Marina Giampieri, Patrizia Paoloni, Laura Cassetta, Etienne Imhoff, Serge Molliex, Vincent Piriou, Helene Beloeil, Philippe Sitbon, Isacco Montroni, Riccardo A. Audisio, Francesco Lijoi, Margherita Bianconi, Maria Luisa Davoli, Francesco Vetta, Massimo Massetti, Gabriella Locorotondo, Alessia Rabini, Uliano Morandi, Stefani Alessandro, Beatrice Aramini, Giampaolo Ugolini, Federico Ghignone, Maria Sammartino, Flavia Toni, Cristina Olivieri, Fabio Sbaraglia, Agnes Almayrac, Frédéric Le Saché, Maria Caterina Pace, Lorenzo De Nardis, Frédéric Aubrun, Pierre Frauche, Martin Hübner, Olle Ljungqvist, Cristiana Forni, Fabio D'Alessandro, Emmanuel Thienpont, Charles Marc Samama, Ulf Guenter, Cédric Villain, Bertrand Guidet, C. Thomas, G. Leblanc, A. Boumendil, Dominique Pateron, Prabhath Fernando, Amit Arora, Peter Crome, Alberto Ferrari, Maurizio Costantini, Sara Albolino, Maurizio Sebastiani, Bernardo Naticchia
