Publisher's Synopsis
Neurosurgical Care of the Elderly is a comprehensive text which discusses the unique management of elderly patients. Although these problems occur in patients of all ages, their management in the geriatric population requires special consideration.
Topics include:
- The physiology of aging
- Perioperative care
- Cranial lesions and benign brain tumors
- Pallidotomy for Parkinson's Disease
- Occlusive cerebrovascular disease
- Hemorrhagic vascular disease
- Head injuries
- Spinal lesions
- Bone physiology and bone healing
- Spinal decompression, fusion and instrumentation
- Delirium, agitation and confusion
(Distributed by Thieme for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons)
