Healthcare Systems Roundtable Special Release
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This live virtual webinar focuses on emergency medicine clinicians’ role in the recognition and acute management of ARIA, including how ARIA may present and what courses of action are needed for different ARIA severities.
Dr. Christina Shenvi and Megan Corry discuss how geriatric specialty paramedic training has the potential to decrease ED readmission rates and enhance the care of older adults.
Within emergency departments, registered nurses with geriatric education are invaluable for assessing older patients, making appropriate care plans, communicating with other health care professionals, and connecting families with services.
Rural and remote emergency departments experience unique challenges in implementing quality improvement in their ED's. But in some ways they can be positioned for better care of older adults.