Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah
You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. She falls and breaks her hip. Should…
You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. She falls and breaks her hip. Should…
This week’s GeriPal podcast features vascular surgeon, researcher, and bioethicist Gretchen Schwarze from the University of Wisconsin. We talk with…
If you were talking to a geriatric trauma surgeon, wouldn’t you think you’d be talking about surgery in older adults…
by: Jason Johanning, vascular surgeon, University of Nebraska We as surgeons know that the timing of an intervention is an…
by: Gretchen Schwarze, @GretchenSchwa10 My husband, also a surgeon, was recently discussing donor-nephrectomy with a healthy 65 year-old woman in…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD A while back people realized that outcomes of surgery in older people were probably better than previously…
by: Gretchen Schwarze (Vascular Surgeon) She seemed awfully angry and at the very least dubious that I couldn’t do more…
Hip replacements are a miracle of modern medicine. They restore mobility to persons with disabling hip arthritis and free them…
During my senior year of residency, I brought an elderly gentleman to the operating room with peritonitis and a benign-appearing…
A McMansion in Munster, IN, from Wikimedia Commons Honolulu, HI, from Wikimedia Commons Following up on our previous post about…