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End-of-Life and Symptom Management in the Older ED Patient
View: End-of-Life and Symptom Management in the Older ED PatientA Geri-EM E-Learning Module Issues relating to the end of life are often a part of caring for older patients in the ED. While there seems like a gulf between the skills of the palliative physician and the emergency physician, working in the ED frequently requires knowledge of the basics of high-quality palliative care. Palliative…
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Frailty in the Older ED Patient
View: Frailty in the Older ED PatientA Geri-EM E-Learning Module When we meet an “old” patient in the ED, we don’t really ask ourselves how old they are, but how frail they are. When we are thinking about the clinical and physiological changes of aging, we are talking about frailty. Frailty is a relatively new concept in geriatric medicine and one…
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Protected: From distress to de-escalation: managing agitation in patients with delirium or dementia
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Functional Assessment and Transitions of Care for Older ED Patients
View: Functional Assessment and Transitions of Care for Older ED PatientsA Geri-EM E-Learning Module Older people, with complex medical and surgical problems, move through our EDs every day. Emergency physicians excel at rapid and focused management of their medical problems. However, we sometimes find the other necessary components of the assessment – cognitive, functional, psycho-social – to be challenging, time- and resource-intensive. Yet if we…