A time-based approach to elderly patients with altered mental status
It’s 7 am on a Monday. Your first patient is an 82 year-old woman who was brought in by EMS from an assisted living facility. All EMS can tell you...
Christina Shenvi, MD PhD |
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It’s 7 am on a Monday. Your first patient is an 82 year-old woman who was brought in by EMS from an assisted living facility. All EMS can tell you...
Christina Shenvi, MD PhD |
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is the number one cause of mortality in patients older than 65 years old. 1 To complicate this fact further, they also present atypically with weakness,...
Salim Rezaie, MD |
Which is a better prognostic tool in geriatric trauma, traditional vital signs or lactate level? Meet Norma Nuance (NN), a 70-year-old woman with CAD, HTN, HLD, DM, and mild dementia....
Christina Shenvi, MD PhD |
Welcome a new superstar blogger, Dr. Christina Shenvi (@clshenvi), to the ALiEM team. If there’s one talent I have, it’s spotting the rising academic star. As the new Geriatrics EM...
Michelle Lin, MD |
Lacerations of elderly patients or chronic corticosteroid users can be a challenge because they often have very thin skin. Sutures can tear through the fragile skin. Tissue adhesives may not...
Michelle Lin, MD |
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