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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.

Medicine. --- Anesthesiology. --- Abdominal surgery. --- Surgery. --- Traumatology. --- Vascular surgery. --- Surgical oncology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- General Surgery. --- Traumatic Surgery. --- Vascular Surgery. --- Abdominal Surgery. --- Surgical Oncology. --- Older people --- Geriatric surgery --- Trauma. --- Abdomen --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Cancer --- Oncologic surgery --- Oncological surgery --- Surgical oncology --- Abdominal surgery --- Laparotomy --- Vascular surgery --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine --- Excision --- Treatment --- Accident medicine --- Trauma medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Wounds and injuries

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"In the preface to this impressive and well-produced book, the editors state that their aim is not to describe a new surgical specialty, since most surgeons will soon need to be "geriatric surgeons," but to assemble a comprehensive account that will allow "all providers of healthcare to the elderly to understand the issues involved in choosing surgery as a treatment option for their patients." This is a useful book that deserves to do well. I hope that the editors and their publisher will have the stamina to make this the first of several editions, as it is clear that updated information about surgery in the elderly will be required to keep pace with this important field." NEJM Book Review .

Older people -- Surgery. --- Surgery. --- Surgery, Operative. --- Surgical Procedures, Operative -- Aged. --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Adult --- Age Groups --- Persons --- Named Groups --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Aged --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Older people --- Operative surgery --- Surgery --- Surgical techniques --- Geriatric surgery --- Technique --- Medicine. --- Geriatrics. --- Abdominal surgery. --- Rectum --- Minimally invasive surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- General Surgery. --- Minimally Invasive Surgery. --- Colorectal Surgery. --- Abdominal Surgery. --- Endoscopic surgery. --- Colon (Anatomy) --- Abdomen --- Abdominal surgery --- Laparotomy --- Endosurgery --- Minimal access surgery --- Minimally invasive surgery --- MIS (Minimally invasive surgery) --- Operative endoscopy --- Surgical endoscopy --- Endoscopy --- Microsurgery --- Surgery, Operative --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Surgery, Primitive --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Rectum—Surgery .

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There is a growing need for a book on emergency general surgery in the elderly, as adults age 65 and older are the fastest growing segment of the population worldwide, and their number is expected to double to 89 million between now and 2050. Based on these changing demographics, it is expected that there will be a concurrent rise in the demand for a variety of surgical services, including vascular surgery (with a projected growth of 31%) and general surgery (with a projected growth of 18%), as well as in all sub-disciplines of surgery (thoracic, cardiac, oncology, hepatobiliary, transplant, plastic colorectal, orthopedic, gynecologic, urology and neurosurgery). In addition, older surgical patients often require a different level of care than younger patients during the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases. Many of our geriatric population have multiple chronic illnesses beyond the one for which surgery is required, and therefore are prone to developing postoperative complications, functional decline, loss of independence, and other undesirable outcomes. In response, this book offers surgeons, geriatrists and nurses state-of-the-art surgical approaches and essential information on the complex perioperative care of the elderly. .

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