Chapter 50 Closing the Loop: How the Elderly Live the Experience of Surgery Gabriella Bettelli There was a ray of hope about a caring encounter and about being treated like…
Chapter 48 Systemic Approach to Management in Geriatric Surgery: Methods and Tools Maurizio Costantini and Maurizio Sebastiani Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas,…
Chapter 48 Systemic Approach to Management in Geriatric Surgery: Methods and Tools Maurizio Costantini and Maurizio Sebastiani Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas,…
Chapter 47 Patient Safety, Ergonomics and Clinical Risk Management Sara Albolino and Maurizio Costantini You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together….
Chapter 38 Treatment of Postoperative Delirium Anastasia Borozdina , Eleonora F. Orena and Federico Bilotta In my fever I had a long consistent delirium. I dreamt that I was in…
Chapter 12 Prehabilitation: How to Enhance Cardio-respiratory Functional Reserve Before Surgery Enrico Maria Minnella and Francesco Carli If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it…
Chapter 29 Cataract Surgery Maria Sammartino , Flavia Toni , Cristina Olivieri and Fabio Sbaraglia The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new…
Chapter 27 Abdominal Surgery Giampaolo Ugolini and Federico Ghignone The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you’re not going to study it…
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…
