Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Christian Nickel is an emergency physician at the Emergency Department of the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He has a special interest in geriatric emergency care. Recently, he has been elected chair of the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section of the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM). His main research focus is disease presentation and risk stratification of older Emergency Department patients. Abdelouahab Bellou is Professor of Therapeutics and Emergency Medicine, University of Rennes, France, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Quality and Safety, Administration and Leadership, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship (QuALIEF) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He was also the co-founder and the former chair of the Section of Geriatric Emergency Medicine of the European Society for Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Bellou has beencommitted to the advancement of emergency medicine for over 20 years. Having served as a former president of the European Society for Emergency Medicine, he has been a leader in the development of international emergency medicine.Dr. Bellou’s consulting specialty areas include emergency medicine education, geriatric emergency medicine, ED operations improvement, ED design and layout, and disaster planning. He is an expert on implementing quality assurance and safety programs in the ED. He is also a basic science researcher working on the role of potassium voltage-dependant channels in vasodilatory shock.Simon Conroy, Geriatrician, University Hospitals of Leicester & Honorary Professor, University of Leicester. His research addresses different models of care for frail older people, assessing feasibility as well as clinical and cost-effectiveness. Professor Conroy’s educational activities take an interdisciplinary perspective on developing and teaching knowledge locally (frailty services), regionally, nationally and internationally. His Specific areas of interest include: frailty, acute care of frail older people, falls in older people, community geriatrics & intermediate care, end of life care & advance care planning, comprehensive geriatric assessment, complex interventions for older people, prescribing in older people

• 1. Profiles of older patients in the emergency department.- 2. Triage of elderly patients.- 3. High-risk presentations in the elderly.- 4. Trauma in the elderly.- 5. Dementia and delirium.- 6. Comprehensive geriatric assessment.- 7. Detection of older people with increased risk of adverse health outcomes after an emergency visit.- 8. Interventions to improve outcomes for elderly patients discharged from the emergency department.- 9. Pathophysiology of severe sepsis in the elderly: clinical impact and therapeutic considerations.- 10. Drug-related problems in the elderly.

“Given the rapidly growing geriatric population presenting to the emergency department, a book like this is well timed, particularly because there are too few resources on this topic. This book fills this void and the authors succeed in writing a book that can be easily embraced by general emergency providers, but is nuanced enough to provide an in depth and thorough exploration of the subject.” (Callie K. Schnitker, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2018)