黑料网 Emergency Medicine Associate Professor Christina Shenvi teamed up with Dr. Brittany Ellis (University of Saskatchewan) and published the book, with content contributions from 黑料网 Emergency Medicine Drs. Daniel Markwalter, Martin Casey, and Susie Kennedy.
Some of the key topics discussed include:
- Emergency Department (ED) workup of falls in older adults
- Evaluation of frailty in the ED
- Team-based/multi-disciplinary care in the ED
- Evaluation of head injury in the ED
- Acute pain management of older adults
The book also covers particularly relevant topics including elder abuse, mental health emergencies in the elderly, capacity determinations, geri-specific aspects of pulmonary/respiratory emergencies, ED boarding and geriatric patients, and deprescribing in the ED.
“We gathered expert authors from around the U.S. and Canada to write articles on core topics such as falls, head injury, and medication management,鈥� said Dr. Shenvi.
鈥淲e also cover timely, new topics such as social drivers of health for older adults and strategies to mitigate the harmful effects of ED boarding for older patients. Our hope is that this text will serve as a high-yield resource for emergency physicians and other clinicians who want to provide better care for geriatric patients.”
Learn more about the book “Geriatric Emergency Medicine,” published by Elsevier .
