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Hypodipsia in geriatric patients

The American Journal of Medicine, 1982
Hypernatremia in elderly patients is most often due to the patients mental incapacity or physical inability to obtain water despite intact thirst sensation. Hypodipsia leading to hypernatremia is not often considered in alert, elderly subjects since hypodipsia is not a recognized consequence of nonaphasia-producing cerebrovascular accidents.
P D, Miller, R A, Krebs, B J, Neal, D O, McIntyre   +3 more
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Polypharmacy and the Geriatric Patient

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2007
The older adult population is increasing and with it, the risk of polypharmacy. Multiple physicians treating one patient, increasing comorbidities, and an increase in the variety of drugs available contribute to the adverse effects of polypharmacy on the elderly patient.
Bryan D, Hayes, Wendy, Klein-Schwartz, Fermin, Barrueto   +2 more
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Peritoneoscopy in Geriatric Patients*

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1974
ABSTRACT: The results of peritoneoscopy in 119 patients of advanced age are described. The procedure permits thorough inspection of the entire abdominal cavity and, in association with guided biopsy, leads to early diagnosis in patients with suspected carcinoma, ill defined chronic liver disease or ascites of undetermined etiology ...
K, Anselm, R M, Gluckmann
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Anaesthesia in Geriatric Patients

1997
The WHO definition of the geriatric patient is a man or a woman above the age of 65 years. In 1980, elderly people made up about 16% of the European population. In the year 2000, around 20% of the population will be over 65, and in 2030 more than 30% will be above 65 years of age.
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Anaesthesia for the Geriatric Patient

Drugs, 1976
Patients over the age of 65 years form a very significant part of anaesthetic practice. At present, about 10% of the population is in this geriatric group, and the population over 75 years of age is likely to increase by 20% in the next decade. Improved surgical management of degenerative disease will lead to an increasing number of operations on the ...
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Anesthesia and the Geriatric Patient

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 1982
The elderly patient presents a number of challenges to the anesthetist in otolaryngologic surgery, ranging from psychologic to physiologic to pharmacologic. Careful attention to the changes in physiology, with depressed or deranged function of many organ systems, requires closer monitoring of vital signs and the incremental administration of drugs ...
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Polypharmacy in Geriatric Patients

Nursing Clinics of North America, 1991
Although research-based information concerning geriatric polypharmacy is lacking, available data suggest possible causes, health risks, and areas for intervention. Nursing home residents are more likely to be recipients of unnecessary and excessive drugs than community-dwelling elderly.
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DRUGS AND THE GERIATRIC PATIENT*

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1971
A bstract Reasons for caution in administering drugs to old people are discussed. A survey was made of the records of 33 elderly cardiac patients in a teaching hospital, 30 elderly ambulatory patients in the community, and 30 elderly patients in a geriatric hospital.
P P, Lamy, M E, Kitler
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Insomnia in the geriatric patient

Clinical Cornerstone, 2003
Insomnia in the geriatric patient is unique and complex, requiring a comprehensive and careful evaluation. Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint reported by persons > 60 years. It is defined as the inability to initiate or maintain sleep, and the etiology can be multifactorial.
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The “Geriatric” NICU Patient

Neonatal Network, 2002
AT ONE END OF THE NICU spectrum of patients is the acutely ill premature or term baby. This is the patient who requires the fast-paced and intellectually stimulating nursing care that often attracts NICU nurses to the specialty. At the other end of the spectrum is the chronically ill baby.
Martha Wilson, Jones, Jennifer L, McMurray, Donna, Englestad   +2 more
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