Product Description: This new edition of Geriatrics At Your Fingertips is a guide to the evaluation and management of the diseases and disorders that most commonly effect older persons. · Fully updated text, with information on new medications released as recently as November 2003 · New Information based on current clinical guidelines, such as the 2003 JNC 7 Report · New assessment instrument on medication appropriateness · New table on common herbal and alternative medications used by older adults, with side effects and cautions · New sections on hospital discharge planning, carpal tunnel syndrome, skin ulcers, and syncope · New algorithms on evaluation of hypoproliferative anemia, pharmacologic management of osteoarthritis, pain assessment in elders with severe cognitive impairment, and evaluation of suspected pulmonary emboli...read more

Offers a reference for professionals who provide primary care to the elderly, focusing on the evaluation and management of the diseases and disorders that commonly affect older persons in a variety of healthcare settings.

Product Description: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Pocket-sized, quick reference to medical care for geriatric patients. Includes assessment instruments, recommended diagnostic tests, management strategies, and pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)