Elderly Patients with Multi-Morbidity, Frailty and Geriatric Syndromes: Therapeutic Problem of Contemporary and Incoming Medicine at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from the Geriatrician’s Viewpoint : Therapeutic Problem of Contemporary and Incoming Med...

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: atomization 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 Clinical gerontology and comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) Geriatric patient particularities Biology of ageing Demographic analysis of contemporary and futural world population Characteristics of ageing Some specifics of geriatric medicine Iatrogenia versus polypharmacy Problems and complications of polypharmacy Multimorbidity in old age and its relations Dehydration : water, natrium, and potassium disturbances in the elderly organ systems in old age and their specifics Delirium Thermoregulatory disorders.