Chapter 31 Endocrine and Metabolic Response to Surgical Stress in the Elderly Maria Caterina Pace and Lorenzo De Nardis Disease (νόσος) is not only suffering (πάθος): it is also toil…
Chapter 19 The Geriatric Patient and Anesthesia Etienne Imhoff , Serge Molliex and Vincent Piriou Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all. Nancy L. Kriseman Introduction Interactions between aging processes and the…
Chapter 5 Assessment of Functional Reserve Guillaume Bousquet-Dion and Francesco Carli When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. A….
Chapter 10 Communication and Informed Consent Concezione Tommasino No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent. Abraham Lincoln Introduction The requirement of informed consent for…
Chapter 7 Sensorial Evaluation and Impact of Visual and Hearing Impairment on Communication Giovanni Zuliani and Amedeo Zurlo The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has…
Chapter 13 Diagnosis and Treatment of Nutritional Deficits Concezione Tommasino Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and…
Chapter 9 Team-based Discussion on Preoperative Evaluation and Decision-making About Surgery Suzanne Festen , Pauline de Graeff , Joanna A. Ijzerman and Barbara L. van Leeuwen In vain have you…
Chapter 18 Safety in the Operating Room: Special Needs of Geriatric Patients Gabriella Bettelli Many principles seem to be very simple, yet it’s violation of simple principles that leads to…
Chapter 1 Aging and Age-related Functional Changes Giancarlo Ghironzi , Jaume Canet Capeta , Ana Fernández Cortés and Gabriella Bettelli The perfect racing car is the one which breaks down…
Abstract Abdominal trauma is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, with abdominal injuries occurring in approximately 1% of all trauma patients.1 However, abdominal trauma accounts…
