TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber, Pavel
TI  - Elderly patients with multi-morbidity, frailty & geriatric syndromes: therapeutic problem of contemporary & incoming medicine at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from the geriatrician's viewpoint
T2  - Aging issues, health and financial alternatives
SN  - 9781617611766
CY  - New York
PB  - Nova Science Publishers
KW  - Geriatric medicine
KW  - Intensive Care Medicine
N1  - Monograph
N2  - This book presents a practically orientated survey of major problems of a clinical picture and therapeutic pitfalls in critically ill elderly patients from the point of view of a geriatrician. A growing number of patients of advanced age represent a highly heterogeneous group with very different health problems. For the ICU admitted elderly patients, there are valuable general pitfalls of modern medicine connected with: atomisation of medicine; absence of holistic approach and contemporary multi-morbidity when they belong to miscellaneous medical branches according to principal somatic diagnosis or seemingly nowhere
ER  -