Oxford Case Histories in Geriatric Medicine

This new addition to the Oxford Case Histories series is a specialty-based collection of geratology cases. Based around the specialist training curriculum for geriatrics, Oxford Case Histories in Geriatric Medicine covers the presentation, management, and treatment of illness in older people and relevant social and ethical issues.

Based around the core curriculum for specialist trainees and consultants, Oxford Case Histories in Geriatric Medicine is a valuable reference and teaching tool, which provides an opportunity for case-based learning across a rapidly growing field. This book uses well-structured and concise cases from the Oxford hospitals. Each case has associated questions on the differential diagnosis and aspects of management providing interactive learning material.

Cases were chosen to illustrate specific issues of particular relevance to geratology, emphasizing the unusual or occult presentation of disease, the presence of multiple interacting pathologies, possibility for rapid deterioration, high incidence of complications of treatment, including adverse drug reactions and a need at times for difficult clinical decisions.

Part of the Oxford Case Histories series, this book will be valuable reading for postgraduate trainees and consultants, and will be an essential resource for those preparing for exit examinations and revalidation. It is also the ideal tool for those who wish to improve their skills in diagnosis and management of a broad range of geriatric disorders.

The well thought out discussions of elder abuse, advance care planning and decision-making capacity are valuable for all clinicians

Auteur
Sanja Thompson is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford and consultant geriatrician at the Departments of acute general medicine and geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. She is also Foundation Training Programme Director, Oxford Foundation School and a senior fellow at HEA. Nicola Lovett is Specialist registrar in general (internal) medicine and geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford and Clinical Research Fellow, Stroke Prevention Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK. Sir John Grimley Evans is a Professor Emeritus of Clinical Geratology at the University of Oxford. He studied at St John's College Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford and has been awarded a number of honours and distinctions including the British Geriatrics Society Dhole Eddlestone Memorial Prize for contributions to research in geriatric medicine, Knight Bachelor for services to medicine, Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine. Sarah T Pendlebury is Associate Professor in Medicine and Old Age Neuroscience in the Stroke Prevention Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford and the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and Consultant Physician in acute general medicine and geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.