Iona Murdoch, Emergency Medicine ST3, East of England Deanery, Cambridge, UKSarah Turpin, Geriatric Medicine ST5, South East Scotland Deanery, Edinburgh, UKBree Johnston, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief for Education, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USAAlasdair MacLullich, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKEve Losman, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, MI, USA

• Preface viiAcknowledgements ixList of Abbreviations xi1 Introduction to geriatric emergency medicine 12 Essentials of assessment and management in geriatric emergency medicine 93 Special skills in geriatric emergency medicine 304 Vulnerable adults and elder abuse 515 Chest pain and atrial fibrillation 626 Dyspnoea 857 Infection and sepsis 1008 Falls and immobility 1129 Syncope 12710 Dizziness 13711 Major trauma 14612 Fractures and back pain 15813 Skin trauma 17914 Head injury 18815 Abdominal emergencies 20016 Diabetic and environmental emergencies 22017 Acute kidney injury and metabolic emergencies 23018 Delirium 24219 Stroke and transient ischaemic attack 256Index 273