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Using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) in geriatric emergency medicine

Emergency Medicine Journal

1 The CFS has become widely adopted in research and clinical settings and has been recommended in the UK for routine administration with adults aged 65+ years with unscheduled hospital attendances. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) uses clinician judgement to quantify the functional impacts of multidimensional health deficits.

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Subcutaneous Rehydration

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The subcutaneous tissues will swell to a point where you have a steady state fluid administration rate, and as soon as you stop the infusion, the remaining fluid will start to subside as it is absorbed. in 2007 compared subcutaneous administration of lactated ringer’s solution by gravity with and without hyalurondase. Kuensting et al.