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Acute Care Surgery in Geriatric Patients

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Editors:
  1. Patrizio Petrone

    1. Department of Surgery, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, Mineola, USA

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  2. Collin E.M. Brathwaite

    1. Department of Surgery, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, Mineola, USA

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  • Presents an interprofessional point of view on the acute care of geriatric patients

  • Provides a concise yet comprehensive summary or surgical decision-making and technique

  • Written by experts in their respective fields

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This comprehensive text will provide a state-of-the art review of the field of geriatric acute care surgery, reviewing new epidemiology data about risk factors for this type of trauma. Assessment of the geriatric trauma patient is unique, and this population requires special attention. Moreover, geriatric patients often suffer from mild to severe cognitive impairment, cardiovascular, and pulmonary insufficiency, which can complicate trauma. This comorbidity informs the evaluation, diagnosis and management of geriatric trauma and stresses the importance of team-based interprofessional care for affected patients. 


Opening chapters describe general principles of geriatric acute care, the physiology of aging, frailty, injury prevention, and goals of care. The main section of the book presents the latest treatment strategies for traumatic orthopedic, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal trauma, including sepsis, complications and critical care monitoring, before turning to nursing considerations for this ever-growing population. Additional chapters on outcomes and COVID management complete the presentation. 


Providing a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field that will help guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts, this text will serve as a very useful resource for physicians, medical students, residents, nurses, therapists, and researchers dealing with, and interested in this challenging type of trauma.

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Table of contents (62 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Acute Care Surgery in the Geriatric Patient Population: General Principles

    • L. D. Britt, Michael Martyak
    Pages 1-5

  3. Healthcare Economics and Aging

    • Jonathan Tamir
    Pages 7-16

  4. A Rationale and Systems Impact for Geriatric Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

    • Alexandra Briggs, Lisa M. Kodadek
    Pages 17-28

  5. Physiology of Aging

    • Thomas K. Duncan, Mattie Arseneaux
    Pages 29-39

  6. Frailty in Geriatric Trauma and Emergency General Surgery

    • Khaled El-Qawaqzeh, Hamidreza Hosseinpour, Sai Krishna Bhogadi, Bellal Joseph
    Pages 41-49

  7. Hematologic Changes with Aging

    • Mark T. Friedman
    Pages 51-57

  8. Sarcopenia

    • Christopher A. Butts, M. Victoria P. Miles, D. Dante Yeh
    Pages 59-65

  9. Immunology: Features of Immunesenescence

    • Niharika A. Duggal
    Pages 67-74

  10. Epidemiology of Injury in the Elderly: Use of DOACs

    • Amanda Hambrecht, Natalie Escobar, Cherisse Berry
    Pages 75-81

  11. Injury Prevention in the Geriatric Population

    • Yesha Maniar, D’Andrea K. Joseph
    Pages 83-89

  12. Neurobehavioral Aspects of Acute Care Surgery in Geriatric Patients

    • Aaron Pinkhasov, Anna Jaysing
    Pages 91-99

  13. Initial Evaluation of the Geriatric Injured Patient

    • Ricardo Jacquez
    Pages 101-105

  14. Emergency Medical Services and the Elderly Patient: Prehospital Management

    • Jonathan Berkowitz, Adrian Cotarelo, Jonathan Washko, Brian Levinsky
    Pages 107-113

  15. Discussing Goals of Care in the Geriatric Acute Care Surgery Patient

    • Sheila Rugnao, Anastasia Kunac
    Pages 115-123

  16. Traumatic Brain Injury

    • Lee Tessler, David Chen
    Pages 125-130

  17. Neurocritical Care in the Elderly

    • Rajanandini Muralidharan, Sok Lee
    Pages 131-139

  18. Cervical and Thoracic Spine Trauma in the Elderly

    • Carlos Yáñez Benítez, Alejandra Utrilla, Luca Ponchietti, Patrizio Petrone
    Pages 141-153

  19. Hollow Viscus Injury

    • Soledad Montón, Felipe Pareja, José Manuel Aranda, Ignacio Monzón, José María Jover
    Pages 155-168

  20. Management of Pancreatic Trauma

    • Kemp Anderson, Areg Grigorian, Kenji Inaba
    Pages 169-175
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Surgery, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, Mineola, USA

    Patrizio Petrone, Collin E.M. Brathwaite

About the editors

Patrizio Petrone, MD, PhD, MPH, MHSA, MAAC, FACS, Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York, USA

Collin E. M. Brathwaite, MD, MS, FACS, Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Acute Care Surgery in Geriatric Patients

  • Editors: Patrizio Petrone, Collin E.M. Brathwaite

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30651-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30650-1Published: 04 August 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30653-2Due: 18 August 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30651-8Published: 03 August 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 630

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Surgery, Geriatrics/Gerontology

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