Geriatric at Your Fingertips 2005 - Softcover

Reuben, David B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886775125 ISBN 13: 9781886775121

Publisher: Amer Geriatrics Society, 2005

Synopsis

Now in its 7th edition, Geriatrics at Your Fingertips is an essential pocket-sized, clinical guide to evaluating and managing the diseases and disorders that most commonly affect older persons.

Fingertips is an excellent tool for all practicing clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physicians assistants, and pharmacists as well as professionals-in-training for all of these disciplines.

New Features of the 2005 Geriatrics At Your Fingertips (7th Edition) include:
- Fully updated text with information on new medications released as recently as November 2004
- Newly revised user-friendly algorithms
- New Sections on tinnitus, bipolar disorder, skin and soft-tissue infections, chronic kidney failure, hyperkalemia, and fecal incontinence
- New assessment instruments include Palliative Performance Scale(PPS), Karnofsky Scale, and Reisberg Functional Assessment Staging (FAST) Scale

About this title

About the Author

Founded in 1942, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a nationwide, not-for-profit association of geriatrics health care professionals dedicated to improving the health, independence and quality of life of all older people. The society supports this mission through activities in: clinical practice; professional education on the clinical care of older people; research; public education and information; public policy efforts; and through collaborative relationships with other organizations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Geriatrics Society
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1886775125
• ISBN 13: 9781886775121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298