Frailty in children : from the perioperative management to the multidisciplinary approach

Frailty in children : from the perioperative management to the multidisciplinary approach / Mario Lima, Maria Cristina Mondardini, editors.

This book focuses on the management strategies of complex conditions of frail pediatric patients. The clinical condition of frailty is usually seen as the physiological and multidimensional decline of organ systems related to age: paradoxically, a frailty condition can also occur in children as a di...

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Other Authors: Lima, Mario (Editor), Mondardini, Maria Cristina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Subjects:
Children > Diseases > Treatment.
Children > Diseases > Surgery.
Children > Diseases > Treatment
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Table of Contents:
  • Section 1 Introductory aspects
  • 1. Frailty in pediatrics: definition and care needs
  • Section 2 Frail newborn infants
  • 2. Premature Infants
  • 3. Newborns with congenital malformations
  • Section 3 Frail children
  • 4. Frail Children with chronic lung disease
  • 5. Frailty in patients with chronic kidney disease
  • 6. The frail child with chronic liver disease
  • 7. The Surgical Management of Children with Intestinal Failure
  • 8. Children with obesity
  • 9. Frailty in children with oncological disease
  • Section 4 Operational improvement strategies
  • 10. Operational Improvements in Neonatal Surgery
  • 11. Operational improvement in pediatric surgery
  • 12. Operational improvement in pediatric neurosurgery
  • 13. Fragility of children with severe early onset scoliosis: Description and analysis of innovative techniques with ⁰́₋growing systems⁰́₊
  • 14. Medical and rehabilitation interventions in children with frailty
  • 15. Operational improvement in Psycology
  • Section 5 Conclusions
  • 16. Follow-up to ensure continuity of care and support preventive care
  • 17. Social aspects: Sutainability for the patient, the family
  • 18. Transitional medicine, from childhood to adulthood.

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