Crucitti Antonio (ed.) Surgical Management of Elderly Patients

Springer, 2018. — 442 p.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.Aging: from Demography to Epidemiology
Anesthesia for the Elderly Patient
Principles of Geriatric Surgery
Perioperative Management
Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Surgical Elderly Patients
Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases in Elderly Patients
Breast Cancer Management in the Older Woman
Surgical Approach to Adrenal Diseases in the Elderly
Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (pNETs)
Esophageal Cancer
Cancer of the Stomach
Surgical Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in the Elderly
Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis
Surgical Management of Colorectal Cancer in the Elderly Patient
Surgical Management of Full-Thickness Rectal Prolapse in the Elderly Patient
Cerebrovascular Disease and Critical Limb Ischaemia
Acute Peripheral Arterial Disease
Aortic Aneurysm in Elderly Patients
Venous Disorders of the Leg
Cholecystectomy in Elderly: Challenge and Critical Analysis of Available Evidence
Cancer of the Gallbladder and Biliary Tree
Pancreatitis
Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Liver
Pancreatic Tumors
Primitive Groin Hernias
Incisional Hernias
The Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma in the Elderly
Trauma in Geriatric Age
Bowel Obstructions
Acute Peritonitis
Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding