Perioperative Care of the Elderly: Clinical and Organizational Aspects

Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Medicine,Specialties

Perioperative Care of the Elderly: Clinical and Organizational Aspects Details

This innovative, comprehensive book covers the key elements of perioperative management of older patients. The book's chapter structure coincides with the clinical path patients tread during their treatment, from preoperative evaluation to post-hospital care. Epidemiological aspects and aging processes are illustrated, providing keys to understanding the quick expansion of geriatric surgery and defining the clinical profile of older surgical patients in a cybernetic perspective. Preoperative evaluation and preparation for surgery, including medication reconciliation and pre-habilitation, are developed in the light of supporting decision-making about surgery in an evidence-based and patient-focused way. Intra- and postoperative management are discussed, aiming to tailor anesthetic, surgical and nursing approaches to specific patients' needs, in order to prevent both general and age-related complications. This volume also addresses issues relevant to geriatric surgery, from different organizational models to clinical risk management and systems engineering applied to hospital organization.

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The Ghoul Vendetta

Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Literature & Fiction,Genre Fiction

The Ghoul Vendetta Details

Men in Black meets Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum in the fourth urban fantasy novel in the series starring seer Makenna Fraser and her fellow agents at Supernatural Protection & Investigation.The agents of Supernatural Protection & Investigations (SPI) are paid to keep the peace. But that’s not so easy when an endless evil threatens to tear that peace to pieces...A vampire gangster’s nephew is abducted off his yacht by a bunch of low-rent Creatures from the Black Lagoon. A slew of banks are knocked over by what looks like the cast of Night of the Living Dead. All of this may seem like the movies, but, I promise you, it’s not.I’m Makenna Fraser, seer for SPI, and I know the culprits aren’t wearing disguises or makeup. They’re real. Deadly real. Especially their leader—an ancient shapeshifter who leaves a trail of chaos and blood in his wake. Now, he’s taken my partner, Ian—and his intentions aren’t pretty.The worst part? This is only the beginning...The beginning of the end of the human race.

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Compass American Guides: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Travel,Reference & Tips

Compass American Guides: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Details

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. America's first national park, Yellowstone contains an incomparable combination of natural beauty, rugged wilderness, and abundant wildlife. Nearby, Grand Teton National Park is renowned for its magnificent, jagged, snow-capped peaks. The Compass American Guide to these parks is chock-full of dazzling photos of the majestic geysers, lakes, and wildlife that make them unlike any places on earth.This travel guide includes:· Dozens of full-color maps · Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations· Major sights such as Lower Falls at Yellowstone, Paintbrush Divide Trail at Grand Teton and the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone· Coverage of Yellowstone's Lower Loop, Yellowstone's Upper Loop, Grand Teton National Parkand Gateway Towns Planning to visit more of Wyoming? Check out Fodor's state-wide travel guide to Montana and Wyoming.

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Vagabondages maonniques : Rflexions

Category: Livres,Religions et Spiritualits,Esotrisme et Paranormal

Vagabondages maonniques : Rflexions Details

Cet ouvrage est une suite de chroniques indépendantes les unes des autres. Elles abordent pourtant toutes des sujets communs à la réflexion maçonnique : la fraternité, la lumière, le pavé mosaïque, la poésie, la mort, l'humour... La cohérence et l'unicité de ce projet tiennent à son auteur ; au regard de Jean-François Pluviaud, empreint du seul désir de comprendre et d'expliquer, fidèle à son engagement à la Grande Loge de France et au Rite Ecossais Ancien et Accepté.

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Mafia Wife

Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Biographies & Memoirs,Specific Groups

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When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-school dropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood. When they were married two years later, he was not yet a "made man" in the powerful Gambino crime family. Louie was a hairdresser who dabbled in petty thievery. But Lynda was so happy to be out of her domineering mother's loveless house. And over the years, she was willing to forgive her husband for anything: his violent rages, his frequent absences, his shady associates, and the blood on his hands. For twenty-four years Lynda Milito remained loyal to this charming and dangerous criminal -- her children's father and close friend of crime boss John Gotti and underboss Sammy "the Bull" Gravano. But in 1988, Louie Milito disappeared, murdered by the very people he had always trusted to protect him.A crime story, a family story, a love story, Mafia Wife is the shockingly intimate, brutally honest tale of a survivor -- and of the life she lived in the dark bosom of the underworld.

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