Emergency department providers across the nation recognize that, every shift, patients seem older. These observations are not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Opportunistic CT screening for osteopenia and sarcopenia in older adults with traumatic…
Health care systems worldwide are grappling with a 21st-century reality for emergency medicine: While we thought EM…
Routine geriatric consults in older trauma patients are associated with improved outcomes, researchers report. Studies of older…
Patients over age 80 who are admitted to intensive care are often not asked their opinion about…
An early invasive strategy provides better outcomes than a conservative strategy in octogenarians with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction…
Elderly patients may be willing to let family members access their medical records and make decisions on…
Are you aware that the Institute of Medicine estimates that health care systems require, on average, 17…
Geriatric emergency medicine (GEM) is an area of growing importance within emergency medicine. The population of adults…
One of the specific goals of the geriatric emergency medicine (GEM) fellowship at the University of California,…