Fundamentals of Geriatric Medicine: A Case-Based Approach by Rainier P. Soriano MD (auth.), Rainier P. Soriano MD, Helen

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By Rainier P. Soriano MD (auth.), Rainier P. Soriano MD, Helen M. Fernandez MD, Christine K. Cassel MD, MACP, Rosanne M. Leipzig MD, PhD (eds.)

As the inhabitants a long time, the original wishes of aged sufferers have gotten more and more very important to practitioners of fundamental care, geriatric medication, kin medication, and inner drugs. Physicians want a convenient source that provides the necessities of geriatric drugs and indicates uncomplicated how you can supply larger care. specialists in geriatric drugs have streamlined Cassel’s vintage textual content, Geriatric drugs: An Evidence-Based procedure, Fourth Edition, into this concise consultant choked with concentrated details and case-based guide. This instruction manual addresses the complexity of illness prevention and presentation in aged sufferers, in addition to geriatric pharmacology. Medicare and Medicaid, and prerequisites universal to aged sufferers, together with melancholy, dementia, and high blood pressure, also are lined. various graphs and tables are integrated during the ebook to aid the reader in processing the knowledge offered and incorporating it into scientific perform. This sensible advisor is a necessary source for all these taking good care of the elderly.

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