Overview of geriatric emergencies

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 75-84

  Richardson, Barbara K ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Elder; Emergency; Emergency department; Geriatric; Review

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CODEINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GENTAMICIN; HALOPERIDOL; HEPARIN; LORAZEPAM; MACROLIDE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

AORTA DISSECTION; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE RESPONSE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STROKE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; MORBIDITY;

EID: 0037339081     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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