chapter 35 geriatric emergencies

• leg shortened 
• externally rotated

• leg shortened
• internally rotated

true

when the inner walls of the artery separates, and you bleed into the layers of the vessel

• a popped valve(vein)
• blood cant move thru them
• blood gets backed up

inability of the heart to meet the needs of the body

they cant feel pain well

the older you get more the heart has to grow, the more the heart grows the more O2 it needs, the more it works the faster it gets tired and dies

• the patient can breath at night and it comes and goes
• -redistribution of body edema into circulation

inability to see up close

when they thing you are trying to focus on is exactly what you cant see(blurry)

urinating

true

post menupausable women

decreased bone mass

• Geriatric
• Environmental
• Medical
• Social

• methicillin resistant staphyococcus
• -staphy infect that is resistant to penicillin

uncontrolable diarrhea