Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510070
Dehydration Prevention and Diagnosis: A Study in Long-Term Geriatric and Palliative Care
Prof. Jochanan E Naschitz, MD
Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
Study Part I is a cross-sectional point of care assessment of data which might distinguish dehydrated from euhydrated subjects. Twelve potential markers of dehydration were evaluated: inadequate fluid intake, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding, diuretic treatment, serum sodium, serum urea and creatinine, urea/creatinine ratio, estimated glomerular filtration rate, hemoglobin and serum albumin. Study Part II is a longitudinal survey of patients at risk of dehydration under changing clinical conditions....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510069
Physical Approach towards the Problem of Aging
Berezin AA
Article Type: Commentary | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
In the beginning of the century L. Boltzmann was the first to represent the increasing entropy process as a time flowing characteristic. Besides, he pointed at a possible time reversion process in micro systems. A symbol of aging of any system - alive or inanimate is the entropy increasing. Is this process reversible? For short periods - yes and biological systems represent examples of it. Unfortunately, any reversing of the entropy sign in these systems is possible only for short periods of tim...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510068
Improvement in Nutritional Status is Associated with Achieving an Adequate Gait Speed at Discharge in Elderly Patients Hospitalized with Acute Heart Failure
Satoru Sakuragi, Nobuhisa Kodera, Toshihiro Iida, Takashi Yamada, Mitsutaka Nakashima, Atsushi Mori, Yuji Koide, Tadashi Wada, Kenji Kawamoto, Machiko Tanakaya and Yusuke Katayama
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
Elderly patients have impaired physical function, which is further reduced by the incidence of hospitalization for heart failure. In these patients, nutritional status also deteriorates during hospitalization, which may cause impairment in their physical function. In this study, we repeatedly measured physical function using gait speed (GS) during hospitalization, and evaluated the factors including nutritional status that are associated with GS at discharge in elderly patients with acute heart ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510067
Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia in a Geriatric Patient Undergoing Hartmann Colostmy
Atilla Tutak, oznur Uludag, M Bahattin Pektas, Recai Kaya, Mevlut Dogukan, Ayse sahin Tutak
Article Type: Case Report | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
Geriatric age group; Increased sensitivity to anesthetic drugs, respiratory, general anesthesia due to cardiac complicatioans and cognitive dysfunction in the postoperative period is restricted. Combined spinal epidural anesthesia compared to general anesthesia and cardiac and respiratory stabilization, the extension of the duration of anesthesia, rapid mobilization, postoperative pain control, the advantages of early discharge and a reduction in costs. High doses of spinal or epidural anesthesi...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5858/1510066
Predicting Suicide Attempt Risk in Older Adults
David Sanchez-Teruel and Maria Auxiliadora Robles-Bello
Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
Suicide attempts double death by suicide rates. To date it remains the only behavior that predicts more harmful future reattempts or deaths from suicide. However, few studies have analyzed the sociodemographic and clinical profiles of older adults who have suffered self-inflicted injuries or attempted suicide. To assess which sociodemographic and clinical variables are more predictive of a high-lethality or definitive future suicide reattempt in older adults who have suffered self-inflicted inju...
