VIDEO: Feeding elderly patients after hip surgery

LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

VIDEO: Feeding elderly patients after hip surgery

LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology
Type: News Item

VIDEO: Feeding elderly patients after hip surgery

LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
Type: News Item

Antipsychotics’ risk in dementia revised upward

ORLANDO – The mortality risk associated with prescription of antipsychotics or valproic acid for behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia is considerably greater than previously estimated,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

ECT electrode placement matters most in elderly

ORLANDO – Right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy at six times the seizure threshold is markedly more effective in severely depressed patients aged 60 and older than in those who are younger,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

Quality gap in atrial fibrillation care significant

LAS VEGAS – About 40% of atrial fibrillation inpatients leave the hospital without a prescription for stroke prevention medications, according to a retrospective review from Northwestern University...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

Simple smell test may predict donepezil response

ORLANDO – Predicting whether add-on donepezil will improve residual cognitive deficits in an elderly patient on adequate antidepressant therapy may be as plain as the nose on the patient’s face....

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

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