ACEP Now

JULY 2, 2025

Supports innovative care models through Medicare pilot programs – focused on improving geriatric emergency care and psychiatric emergency care, increasing bilateral communication and improving coordinated care. Gaudet, an emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “I Read more about the bill here.

Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Journal

AUGUST 21, 2024

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.

Geriatric Emergencies

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Moving the Needle on Fall Prevention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network Scoping Review and Consensus Statement. Moving the Needle on Fall Prevention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network Scoping Review and Consensus Statement. There are three other GEAR 1.0

Geriatric Emergencies

Taming the SRU

MAY 1, 2023

Head computed tomography findings in geriatric emergency department patients with delirium, altered mental status, and confusion: A systematic review Link: [link] Bottom Line: Amongst geriatric ED patients presenting with AMS ~16% were noted to have a CT with Ischemia, Hemmorage, mass or finding to explain their AMS.

Poisoning

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

AUGUST 1, 2016

References Allen CH, Etzwiler LS, Miller MK, Maher G, Mace S, Hostetler MA, Smith SR, Reinhardt N, Hahn B, Harb G; INcreased Flow Utilizing Subcutaneously-Enabled Pediatric Rehydration Study Collaborative Research Group. Recombinant human hyaluronidase-enabled subcutaneous pediatric rehydration. Pediatrics. 2009 Nov;124(5):e858-67.

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