| Autor: |
Balsano, Nicholas, Cayten, C. Gene |
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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America; May 1990, Vol. 8 Issue: 2 p399-410, 12p |
| Abstrakt: |
Abdominal emergencies in the elderly requiring emergent surgery pose a significant challenge to the emergency physician. Because of concomitant illness, these patients generally have a substantial operative risk. Further, the symptoms and signs in these patients are frequently milder and less specific than in younger adults with the same conditions. Therefore, the emergency physician must develop a high index of suspicion for these conditions and must seek early surgical consultation, even if a definitive diagnosis has not been established. In other words, in many cases consultation must be sought on the basis of the emergency physician's clinical suspicion rather than on “hard” data. |
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