Geriatric Emergency Care, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 39-4 - October 6, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Maura Kennedy, Shan Liu
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 3 7 3 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 3 7 4 - 4
In this issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest editors Drs. Maura Kennedy and Shan Liu bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Geriatric Emergency Care. Top… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest editors Drs. Maura Kennedy and Shan Liu bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Geriatric Emergency Care. Top experts in the field cover critical topics or concepts in geriatric emergency medicine and topics for which there is new research, including guidance on “geriatricizing” the ED and ED observation unit, caring for persons with dementia, and examining the intersection of DEI and care of an aging population.
Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the aging process: physiologic changes and frailty; elder abuse and neglect: recognition and management in the emergency department; best practices in end of life and palliative care in the ED; falls and other trauma in the older adult; and more.
Provides in-depth clinical reviews on geriatric emergency care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Geriatricians
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Assessing Physiologic Reserve and Frailty in the Older Emergency Department Patient: Should the Paradigm Change?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Vital sign interpretation in older emergency department patients
- Factors to consider in addition to vital sign changes
- Frailty as a “vital sign”
- Why assess frailty in the emergency department?
- How to assess frailty or vulnerability in the emergency department?
- Should frailty assessment be part of the emergency department triage process?
- Can frailty assessment change the process of emergency department care?
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Nonspecific Complaints in Older Emergency Department Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Emergency department evaluation of nonspecific complaints
- Emergency department care transitions for patients with nonspecific complaints
- Referrals for home and community service
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Older Adult Falls in Emergency Medicine, 2023 Update
- Key points
- Epidemiology of falls
- Technological advances with pre-hospital falls detection
- Systems-based prehospital falls detection risk assessment and preventive interventions
- Emergency department and post–emergency department fall risk assessment and interventions
- Post–emergency department falls clinic
- Resource allocation for falls management in the emergency department
- Next steps
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Trauma (Excluding Falls) in the Older Adult
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Delirium and Delirium Prevention in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Delirium definition and epidemiology in the emergency department
- Delirium’s heterogeneity
- Delirium and dementia
- Risk factors for delirium
- Medication risk factors for delirium
- Under recognition of delirium in the emergency department
- Assessment of delirium in the emergency department
- The diagnostic evaluation once delirium is detected in the emergency department
- Nonpharmacological management of delirium
- Pharmacological management for delirium in the emergency department
- Disposition of patients with delirium
- Nonpharmacological management (prevention) in the emergency department
- Assess, diagnose, evaluate, prevent, and treat tool for delirium care
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Elder Mistreatment: Emergency Department Recognition and Management
- Key points
- The emergency department encounter: a missed opportunity
- Improving detection
- Improving intervention and management
- The future
- Resources
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Best Practices in End of Life and Palliative Care in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Assessing of palliative care needs in the emergency department
- Communicating difficult news
- Suffering in the last days of life
- Palliating pain management
- Palliating dyspnea management
- Caring for hospice patients
- Quality metrics for palliative care in the emergency department
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Optimizing the Care of Persons Living with Dementia in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Emergency Department Pain Management in the Older Adult
- Key points
- Introduction
- General approach to pain in older adults
- Pharmacologic treatments
- Opioids
- Opioid use disorder
- Neuropathic agents
- Skeletal muscle relaxants
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Adverse Drug Event Prevention and Detection in Older Emergency Department Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Prescribing and deprescribing electronic tools
- Integrating into emergency department workflow
- Summary
- Clinics care point
- Disclosure
- Developing a Geriatric Emergency Department: People, Processes, and Place
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Emergency Department-to-Community Transitions of Care: Best Practices for the Older Adult Population
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding sources
- Disclosure
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Considerations in the Geriatric Emergency Department Patient
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Culture
- Clinics care points
- Clinics care points
- Clinics care points
- Discussion
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 39-4
- Published: October 6, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443183737
- eBook ISBN: 9780443183744
MK
Maura Kennedy
Affiliations and expertise
Division Chief of Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical SchoolSL
Shan Liu
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School