Clinical Skills Geriatrics Flash Cards

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Title: Clinical Skills Geriatrics
Description: Geriatrics Tips for sucess
Number of Cards: 13
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Author: tstevens9
Created: 2010-01-06
Tags: geriatrics
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    • Question
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    • Side 3
    • Functional assessment measures
    • ability to perform activities of daily living
    • Advanced directives
    • Planning for incapacitation or death
    • Why is H & P important?
    • it provides key sources of information about the patient
    • What is very important in Geriatrics
    • Observation
    • Polypharmacy
    • Increased drug use leads to multiple drug interactions and adverse effects that may be cumulative with each drug added.
    • Polyphysician
    • Ideally a pt. should have a PCP to coordinate care whith other multiple specialists.
    • Mini mental status exam
    • 30 questions filled out with pt.
    • Activities of Daily living
    • Basic activities that the pt. should be able to complete by themselves
    • Cardiac situations to consider with age
    • Decrease in max heart rate/cardiac output, heart walls are stiffer
    • Pulmonary considerations with elderly
    • decreased useful lung capacity and increased DEAD SPACE

      Decreased response to CO2 and O2 levels
    • Renal considerations in the elderly
    • Kidney fxn decreases slightly per year after age of 50.

      May decrease excretion of medications.
    • Hepatic considerations in elderly.
    • Decreased ability for Liver to detox and metab drugs
    • Body composition in the elderly pt.
    • increeased body fat from 15 - 30%

      Decreased muscle mass, water and bone mass