Spring/Summer 2005 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

HEALTH CAREBaby BoomerHealth DynamicsHow Are We Aging?Andrew V. WisterAre the baby boomers in Canada more or lesshealthy than previous generations? What are theimplications of this for the national health care system?Baby Boomer Health Dynamics responds to thegrowing interest in the generation that makes upover one-third of the Canadian population – thelargest segment of society – with the leading edgereaching their sixty-fifth birthday in 2011 andeighty-five by 2031.Focusing on four health behaviours that havebeen proven to be major risk factors for disease:smoking, unhealthy exercise, obesity, and heavydrinking – Andrew V. Wister researches the longtermimplications of several key lifestyle-healthconundrums, most notably the paradoxical relationshipin the concurrent trends over the last twodecades of increased exercise levels and a significantrise in obesity. This invariably leads to questionsabout the eating habits of North Americans, and inparticular, the quantity and quality of fast-food andconvenience-food consumption. Recent public declarationsby a number of health organizations andinstitutes that we are experiencing an obesity crisis,and moreover, that obesity is the ‘new tobacco’makes Baby Boomer Health Dynamics both timelyand topical.Andrew V. Wister is the chair of the Department ofGerontology at Simon Fraser University.Acute Resuscitation andCrisis ManagementAcute Critical Events SimulationEdited by David T. NeilipovitzUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PRESSWhile the management of critically ill patients has traditionallybeen an undeveloped area of medicine,recent advances now allow patients to survive illnessesand disorders that were previously fatal.Unfortunately, the knowledge and techniques that arerequired to do this are not traditionally taught in medicalschool. Thus, medical errors are not uncommon.In 2001, physicians responsible for the care ofthe critically ill were introduced to a new program:the Acute Critical Events Simulation (ACES)Program, an intensive and highly interactive courseon the acute resuscitation of critically ill patientsand the management of crisis situations.This book is a compendium to the ACESProgram, containing its important background informationand reference material. With contributions byrecognized physicians from across Canada, it presentsthe specifics of acute resuscitation in the context ofcrisis resource management and teaches readers lifesaving resuscitation skills in a way that allows them touse their medical training more effectively.With increasing doctor shortages forcing morephysicians to manage acutely ill patients, this bookwill aid physicians looking for a simple yet usefultext to help them manage critically ill patients inconnection with the ACES Program.David T. Neilipovitz, MD, is a staff physician at theOttawa Hospital (Civic Campus) and an assistantprofessor in the Department of Anesthesiology atthe University of Ottawa.Approx. 300 pp / 6 x 9 / March 200565 figures; 57 tablesCloth ISBN 0-8020-8957-7 £42.00 $65.00 EPaper ISBN 0-8020-8635-7 £20.00 $29.95 CApprox. 300 pp / 6 x 9 / June 2005Line drawings throughoutPaper ISBN 0-7766-0597-6 £22.50 $35.00 C58