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<p>List of Contributors vii</p> <p>1 General assessment of the elderly patient 1<br /> <i>Alison Southern & Scott Wilber</i></p> <p>2 Physiologic changes with aging 13<br /> <i>Kate D. Zimmerman & Robert S. Anderson, Jr.</i></p> <p>3 Functional assessment of the elderly 28<br /> <i>Kirk A. Stiffler</i></p> <p>4 Pharmacological issues in the elderly 43<br /> <i>Ruben Olmedo & Denise Nassisi</i></p> <p>5 Altered mental status in the elderly 58<br /> <i>Josh Joseph & Maura Kennedy</i></p> <p>6 Geriatric psychiatric emergencies 71<br /> <i>Josh Joseph & Maura Kennedy</i></p> <p>7 Acute abdominal pain in the elderly: Surgical causes 83<br /> <i>Katren Tyler & Maura Kennedy</i></p> <p>8 Nonsurgical abdominal pain in the elderly 99<br /> <i>Katren Tyler & Maura Kennedy</i></p> <p>9 Back pain 110<br /> <i>Nicholas Santavicca & Michael E. Winters</i></p> <p>10 Headache 123<br /> <i>Benjamin W. Friedman & Rebecca Nerenberg</i></p> <p>11 Dyspnea in the elderly 139<br /> <i>Mercedes Torres & Siamak Moayedi</i></p> <p>12 Acute chest pain in the geriatric patient 152<br /> <i>Marianne Haughey</i></p> <p>13 Acute cardiac disease in elder patients 168<br /> <i>Susanne DeMeester</i></p> <p>14 Syncope in Geriatrics 191<br /> <i>Timothy C Peck, Nissa J Ali & Shamai A Grossman</i></p> <p>15 Stroke 203<br /> <i>Julie Watkins-Torrey, Roxanna Sadri & Kama Guluma</i></p> <p>16 Infections 218<br /> <i>Jason Ondrejka & Scott Wilber</i></p> <p>17 Dizziness and vertigo in the geriatric population 234<br /> <i>Jonathan Edlow & Alessandro Cancelliere</i></p> <p>18 Weakness and functional decline 252<br /> <i>Colleen M McQuown</i></p> <p>19 Emergency department evaluation of falls in the elderly 264<br /> <i>Tania D. Strout & Robert S. Anderson</i></p> <p>20 Trauma in the geriatric patient 280<br /> <i>Christopher R. Carpenter & Peter L. Rosen</i></p> <p>21 Surgical considerations in the elderly 304<br /> <i>Charles W. O’Connell, Davut Savaser & Colleen Campbell</i></p> <p>22 Oncologic emergencies 321<br /> <i>Gabriel Wardi, Alexander Bromfield & Leslie C. Oyama</i></p> <p>23 Elder abuse and neglect 351<br /> <i>Michael C. Bond & Kenneth H. Butler</i></p> <p>24 Geriatric emergency pain management case 363<br /> <i>Teresita M Hogan & Alexandra Wong</i></p> <p>25 Ethical issues and end-of-life care 386<br /> <i>Phillip D. Magidson & Jon Mark Hirshon</i></p> <p>26 Geriatric dispositions and transitions of care 394<br /> <i>Barbara Morano, Carmen Morano, Kevin Biese, Eric A. Coleman & Ula Hwang</i></p> <p>27 The geriatric ED, 407<br /> <i>Phillip D. Magidson, John G. Schumacher & Elizabeth A. Couser</i></p> <p>Index 417 </p>

<p>Series Editors:<br /><strong>Shamai Grossman</strong>, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, Clinical Decision Unit and Cardiac Emergency Center. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. <p><strong>Peter Rosen</strong>, Senior Lecturer Emergency Medicine Harvard Medical School; Attending Emergency Physician Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Visiting Clinical Professor Emergency Medicine University of Arizona; Professor Emergency Medicine University of California San Diego, MA. <p>Editor-Chief:<br /></strong>Amal Mattu</strong>, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.<br />Dr. Mattu is one of the leading emergency medicine educators in the US and a strong advocate for geriatric emergency medicine training. He has authored or co-authored 5 books for Wiley, including his extremely successful ECGs for Emergency Physicians titles, which have been perennial bestsellers. Dr. Mattu is Consulting Editor for <em>Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America</em>; he is a popular speaker at conferences around the world and he has won multiple awards for his excellence in teaching, including national awards from the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine.

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