Surgical Decision Making in Geriatrics A Comprehensive Multidiscipli
This book is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to all aspects of geriatric surgery within the broad confines of surgery in geriatrics including general surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, cardiac surg
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Surgical Decision Making in Geriatrics
Rifat Latifi Editor
Surgical Decision Making in Geriatrics A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Approach
Editor Rifat Latifi Department of Surgery New York Medical College School of Medicine and Westchester Medical Center Health Network Valhalla, NY USA
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Prologue: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Elderly, Disparity
When we conceived this book, none of us could imagine that before the book goes to the print, the world would be in chaos from a disease that would affect all of us, but particularly will be deadly for the elderly and disparity population. None of us thought that the entire world would change as it did. Over the past six months, not just the world has changed and with that the hospitals and practice surgery have also changed. For months we did not perform any elective surgery; we only performed emergency surgery. Everyone has a mask on, everyone who works in the hospitals and patient alike. But as bad as it was, we learned a lot during these past months, and chances are we will continue to learn more about the disease that has spread throughout the world and that affects every organ. With each day passing we learned new things. Who is dying, but even more importantly, why patients are dying? How do we protect each other, ourselves, our families, our patients, and hospital staff? It is very difficult to keep up with new information. One paragraph written today on your paper on COVID-19 or information you read is challenged next day by new data or by lack of dat
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