Acute Care Surgery in Geriatric Patients

Patrizio Petrone, MD, PhD, MPH, MHSA, MAAC, FACS, Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York, USACollin E. M. Brathwaite, MD, MS, FACS, Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York, USA

• Introduction: The Aging Of America.- Healthcare Economics And Aging.- A Rationale And Systems Impact.- For Geriatric Trauma And Acute Care Surgery.- Physiology Of Aging.- On Frailty.- Hematological Changes With Aging.- Sarcopenia.- Immunologic.- Epidemiology Of Injury In The Elderly Injury Prevention.- Psychology And The Injured Elderly.- Initial Evaluation Of The Geriatric Injured Patient.- General Evaluation .- Prehospital Management .- Discussing Goals Of Care.- Traumatic Brain Injury.- Concussions.- Sdh.- Traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Use Of Doacs .- Neuro Critical Care.- Spine Injury.- Cervical Spinal Trauma.- Identification, Treatment, And Prognosis Of Geriatric Thoracolumbar.- Spinal.- Abdominal Trauma.- Genitourinary Trauma.- Solid Organ Injury.- Spleen.- Kidney.- Lung.- Orthopedic Trauma.- Geriatric Hip Fractures.- Acetabulum Fractures.- Long Bone Fractures.- Thoracic Trauma In The Elderly.- Esophageal Injury.- Pulmonary Injury.- Tracheal Injury.- Cardiac Trauma.- Vascular Trauma And Vascular Emergencies.- Injury Due To Extremes Of Temperature .- Plastics/Skin And Soft-Tissue Injury Trauma.- Soft Tissue Infections In The Elderly.- Perioperative Management Of The Geriatric Patient.- General Surgical Emergencies .- Acute Diverticulitis.- Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Management Of Bowel Obstruction.- Critical Care Management In The Elderly.- Nutrition Assessment And Therapy.- Acute Kidney Injury (Aki).- Sepsis.- Elder Abuse.- Longterm Care.- Nursing Considerations In Management Of Geriatric Patients.- General Evaluation, Risk Management, And Goals Of Care – Surgical Optimization.- Emergency-Nursing Considerations.- Perioperative Nursing Considerations.- Implementing Nursing Care Plans .- Nursing And Polypharmacy.- Outcomes For Surgical Care In The Elderly.- The Elderly And Pandemics: Covid.