Related Experiment Videos
Special considerations in the elderly patient
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, California.
Clinics in Chest Medicine
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
This article has discussed drug therapy in the elderly and included a discussion of optimal inhaled bronchodilator therapy; issues relating to tracheostomy, a frequent requirement after ventilatory failure in the elderly; oxygen administration, emphasizing its effects on exercise in COPD, and forced oscillation, a new technique that may have utility in the measurement of lung function in the geriatric population.