Perioperative evaluation and care of older gynecology patients

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 247-252

  Leff, Bruce ^a   Christmas, Colleen ^b   Steel, Knight ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HEPARIN; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE AGONIST; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RANITIDINE; SEDATIVE AGENT; THYROTROPIN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGING; ANAMNESIS; BLADDER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DRUG EXCRETION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCONTINENCE; INTESTINE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOBILIZATION; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THYROID DISEASE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0041335208     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(03)00046-5     Document Type: Article

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