Nutrition management of geriatric surgical patients

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 877-896

  Dudrick, Stanley J ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly surgical risks; Frailty syndrome; Geriatric assessment; Geriatric demographics; Geriatric nutrition; Geriatric nutritional assessment; Geriatric surgery

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; VITAMIN D;

ANXIETY; BEREAVEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FOOD INTAKE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALNUTRITION; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARANOIA; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT CHANGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79960639222     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2011.05.003     Document Type: Review

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