# Best Practices in COVID Care in the Geriatric ED

About this Webinar

Learn more about innovations in care of older ED patients with COVID during this pandemic. The four speakers focussed sequentially on: implementing telehealth; delirium as a symptom of COVID; changing visitor policies for older patients with COVID; and community paramedicine to follow COVID patients after discharge.

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https://youtu.be/o1XwW16TwO4

Webinar Details

Expert Panel

James Kenny, MD
Assistant Medical Director,
Milstein Adult Emergency Department
Medical Director,
NYP-Columbia Geriatric Emergency Department

Maura Kennedy, MD
Director Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

Kevin Biese, MD, MAT
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs
Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Co-Director, Division of Geriatric Emergency Medicine
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Kevin G. Munjal, MD, MPH, MSCR
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine / Population Health
Medical Director, Community Paramedicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York

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Goals

To give practical guidance to improve care of older patients with COVID.

To share learning from around North America that has made a difference during the first waves of COVID-19.

To identify resources and strategies to:

implement telehealth,

enhance visitor policies,

improve delirium identification and assessment,

improve goals of care discussions, and

enhance transitions of care.