TY - JOUR
T1 - Surgery in the nursing home patient
AU - Zenilman, M. E.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Will a Geriatric Surgical Consult Service eventually develop into yet another surgical subspecialty? Precedent has been set in surgical fields such as pediatric and plastic surgery, and surely the expanding patient population will demand that some surgeons take care of the geriatric surgical patient full time. Those surgeons doing so will therefore become recognized experts and will be frequently consulted. The surgical problems faced by this unique patient population observed in our small series are most often straightforward. More complicated issues related to wound and intravenous line care, breast disease, and alimentary tract disease should be easily handled by an aggressive, conscientious, well trained general surgeon.
AB - Will a Geriatric Surgical Consult Service eventually develop into yet another surgical subspecialty? Precedent has been set in surgical fields such as pediatric and plastic surgery, and surely the expanding patient population will demand that some surgeons take care of the geriatric surgical patient full time. Those surgeons doing so will therefore become recognized experts and will be frequently consulted. The surgical problems faced by this unique patient population observed in our small series are most often straightforward. More complicated issues related to wound and intravenous line care, breast disease, and alimentary tract disease should be easily handled by an aggressive, conscientious, well trained general surgeon.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0039-6109(16)46228-6
DO - 10.1016/S0039-6109(16)46228-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 8108771
AN - SCOPUS:0028324839
VL - 74
SP - 63
EP - 77
JO - Surgical Clinics of North America
JF - Surgical Clinics of North America
SN - 0039-6109
IS - 1
ER -