Risk factors and prediction of postoperative delirium in elderly hip-surgery patients: implementation and validation of a medical risk factor model
Article Abstract:
A study to evaluate factors that may be associated with postoperative delirium among elderly patients who have undergone surgery of hip, is discussed.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
Risk factors, Surgery, Postoperative complications
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
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Home automated external defibrillators in a geriatric population: a brief discussion of the evidence
Article Abstract:
A study examining the successes in cardiac resuscitation with the use of automated external defibrillators, among older people, is presented.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing, Science & research, Electromedical equipment, Defibrillators, Research, Usage, Cardiac resuscitation
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
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Subjects list: Health aspects, United States, Aged patients, Elderly patients
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