5 Ways to Geriatricize Your ED

Chris Carpenter, one of the authors of the Geriatric ED guidelines, presents 5 high-impact, low-cost ways to make your ED and your practice more geriatric-friendly.

For the full show notes with references and to leave comments, see: https://gempodcast.com/2016/06/29/5-ways-to-geriatricize-your-ed/

Geriatric EDs, or Senior EDs, have been popping up around the country. The idea behind them is that having a separate space, a distinct staff, and specialized protocols, can help provide better care to older adults. However, for many EDs and hospital systems this is simply not feasible. In this episode, Chris Carpenter (@GeriatricEDnews) presents five high-yield, low-cost ways that those of us working in non-senior EDs can take some of the principles of geriatric emergency medicine and apply them either to our own practice or implement them in our own EDs, without a lot of funding. For more about Geriatric EDs, check out this ALiEM blog post. https://www.aliem.com/2014/geriatric-emergency-departments-coming-hospital-near/

The full geriatric ED guidelines are available here: https://www.acep.org/geriedguidelines/

To learn more about many of the Geriatric EM ideas and concepts discussed here, check out the Geri-EM.com site, where you can also get free CME.

For the references see: https://gempodcast.com/2016/06/29/5-ways-to-geriatricize-your-ed/

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