Geriatrics /
Designed for the busy practitioner, Geriatrics presents 97 alphabetically arranged topics covering all major concerns in geriatric rehabilitation ranging from age-related changes to end-of-life care. The first section reviews topics related to normal aging and assessment methods to measure systemic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Demos Medical Pub.,
[©2013]
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Edición: | 1st edition. |
Colección: | Rehabilitation medicine quick reference.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I Assessment and aging
- Aging: theories and epidemiology
- Age-related changes: Bone
- Age-related changes: cardiovascular
- Age-related changes: central nervous system and cognitive
- Age-related changes: gastrointestinal
- Age-related changes: hearing and vestibular
- Age-related changes: muscular
- Age-related changes: posture and balance
- Age-related changes: pulmonary
- Age-related changes: renal
- Age-related changes: sensory
- Age-related changes: skin
- Age-related changes: visual
- Decision making
- History
- Examination: cognitive
- Examination: musculoskeletal
- Examination: neurologic
- Electrodiagnosis: nerve conduction studies
- Electrodiagnosis: the needle exam
- electromyography
- Evaluation of balance and mobility
- Evaluation of depression
- Evaluation of function
- Evaluation of osteoporosis: detection of significant bone loss
- II organ system diseases and disorders
- Anemia
- Blood disorders
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular: amputation
- Cardiovascular: peripheral arterial disease
- Cardiovascular: syncope and orthostatic hypotension
- Cardiovascular: thromboembolic disease
- Depression
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diabetes: the diabetic foot
- Functional decline: deconditioning
- Functional decline: frailty
- Functional decline: sarcopenia
- Gastrointestinal: constipation
- Gastrointestinal: fecal incontinence
- Musculoskeletal: arthritis of the ankle and hind foot
- Musculoskeletal: arthritis of the thumb, fingers, and wrist
- Musculoskeletal: dupuytren's contractures and trigger finger
- musculoskeletal: hip fracture
- Musculoskeletal: joint replacement
- Musculoskeletal: low back pain
- Musculoskeletal: neck pain
- Musculoskeletal: osteoarthritis
- Musculoskeletal: osteoporosis and vertebral fractures
- Musculoskeletal: posterior tibial tendon dysfunction
- Musculoskeletal: shoulder
- Musculoskeletal: spinal stenosis
- Neurologic: Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Neurologic: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neuromuscular disorders
- Neurologic: balance disorders
- Neurologic: carpal tunnel syndrome
- Neurologic: charcot foot
- Neurologic: Delirium
- Neurologic: Dizziness and vertigo
- Neurologic: dysphagia
- Neurologic: falls
- Neurologic: gait disorders
- Neurologic: homonymous hemianopsia
- Neurologic: Parkinson's disease
- Neurologic: Parkinson's disease
- postural instability, freezing, and falls
- Neurologic: spinal cord injury
- Neurologic: stroke
- Neurologic: traumatic brain injury
- Rheumatologic: fibromyalgia
- Rheumatologic: giant cell arteritis
- Rheumatologic: polymyalgia rheumatica
- Skin: pressure sores
- Skin: the problem wound
- Special senses: hearing
- Special senses: vision
- cataracts
- Special senses: vision
- general
- Special senses: vision
- glaucoma
- Special senses: vision
- macular degeneration
- Urinary incontinence
- III Special topics
- Aging with a developmental disability
- Aging with a spinal cord injury
- Alternative medicine
- Driving evaluation
- Ethics
- Exercise
- home and environmental modifications
- Medicolegal concerns
- Pain management
- Pharmacology: general
- Pharmacology: management of polypharmacy
- Prescription writing: drugs and therapy
- Rehabilitation settings: evaluation for postacute rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation settings: home health care
- Rehabilitation settings: inpatient rehabilitation, acute
- Rehabilitation settings: long-term acute care hospital and adult day care
- Rehabilitation settings: subacute rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation settings: palliative care
- End-of-life care.