On the contrary, breaking a hip (and the risk of any type of fall) is widely recognised as a major concern for the elderly. To change this trivialisation of pneumonia in the elderly and help increase vaccination uptake, the authors compared 2-year outcomes for elderly patients aged 80 year...
The article presents opinion on who should be responsible for giving the "do not resuscitate" status to elderly patients who have broken their hips and suffer life threatening cardiac arrests during their recovery and rehabilitation. A discussion of an increase in hip fractures which have been seen...
Hip fracture is a common, serious and complex injury and an important cause of morbidity, mortality and rising healthcare costs worldwide. This review indicates that although commonly associated with the elderly, incidence and impact in the under 60s has been under-explored. Current health policy,...
Current health policy, professional and social norms almost exclusively focus on the elderly, surgical interventions and short-term outcomes, rendering the under 60s an inadvertently marginalised, relatively 'silent' sub-set of the hip fracture population.Nurses must be aware however of the different ...
A framework for fall detection of elderly people by analyzing environmental sounds through acoustic local ternary patterns Fall in elderly people may result in head injury, broken hips, and bones that need immediate hospitalization to lower the mortality risk. During the last... A Irtaza,SM Adnan...
Torsades de Pointes in an Elderly Patient with "Broken Heart Syndrome" Broken heart syndrome, also called transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome (TLVABS), is described as an acute cardiomyopathy characterized by... YC Lai,PF Hsu - 《International Journal of Gerontology》 被引量: 2...
Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a disease resulting in high mortality rate and disability among survivors. The aim of this review is to elucidate the basic knowledge, results of recent studies and future directions in diagnosis and management of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. The first part focuses...