Chapter 44 – Ethics in Geriatric Surgery, End-of-Life and Palliative Care
Chapter 44 Ethics in Geriatric Surgery, End-of-Life and Palliative Care Prabhath Fernando , Amit Arora and Peter Crome You have told me all the things I need to hear before…
Chapter 49 – Systems Engineering in Geriatric Surgery: The Contribution of Modeling and Simulation
Chapter 49 Systems Engineering in Geriatric Surgery: The Contribution of Modeling and Simulation Maurizio Costantini and Berardo Naticchia Systems engineering embraces every scientific and technical concept known… . It is the…
Chapter 43 – Planning for Discharge
Chapter 43 Planning for Discharge Amedeo Zurlo and Giovanni Zuliani Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a…
Chapter 50 – Closing the Loop: How the Elderly Live the Experience of Surgery
Chapter 50 Closing the Loop: How the Elderly Live the Experience of Surgery Gabriella Bettelli There was a ray of hope about a caring encounter and about being treated like…
Chapter 48 – Systemic Approach to Management in Geriatric Surgery: Methods and Tools
Chapter 48 Systemic Approach to Management in Geriatric Surgery: Methods and Tools Maurizio Costantini and Maurizio Sebastiani Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas,…
Chapter 48 – Systemic Approach to Management in Geriatric Surgery: Methods and Tools
Chapter 48 Systemic Approach to Management in Geriatric Surgery: Methods and Tools Maurizio Costantini and Maurizio Sebastiani Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas,…
Chapter 47 – Patient Safety, Ergonomics and Clinical Risk Management
Chapter 47 Patient Safety, Ergonomics and Clinical Risk Management Sara Albolino and Maurizio Costantini You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together….
Chapter 38 – Treatment of Postoperative Delirium
Chapter 38 Treatment of Postoperative Delirium Anastasia Borozdina , Eleonora F. Orena and Federico Bilotta In my fever I had a long consistent delirium. I dreamt that I was in…
Chapter 12 – Prehabilitation: How to Enhance Cardio-respiratory Functional Reserve Before Surgery
Chapter 12 Prehabilitation: How to Enhance Cardio-respiratory Functional Reserve Before Surgery Enrico Maria Minnella and Francesco Carli If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it…
Chapter 29 – Cataract Surgery
Chapter 29 Cataract Surgery Maria Sammartino , Flavia Toni , Cristina Olivieri and Fabio Sbaraglia The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new…
