Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group
The IFEM Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group was established in 2015. In many IFEM countries – on all continents — older people are the fastest growing demographic segment in the population. In all countries older patients are among the most complex, most vulnerable, and most resource-intensive of all ED patients. There is a growing awareness that care of older ED patients represents an identifiable sub-specialty within the practice of EM. The GEM SIG brings together clinicians, researchers, and educators who have a specific focus on improving care of older ED patients. We are a coalition of the willing and if you are interested in being involved, please contact the Chair, Carolyn Hullick (Australia) via the Secretariat.
We promote Geriatric Emergency Medicine through:
Membership
Dr Carolyn Hullick | Chair
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
Dr Hullick is a Senior Staff Specialist Emergency Physician and Director of Emergency Medicine at Belmont District Hospital, Newcastle, Australia. She is the Clinical Lead, Aged Care Emergency program for the Hunter New England Local Health District. She is Conjoint Senior Lecturer for the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. She has been involved in the development of a State-wide Chest Pain pathway for all Emergency Departments in New South Wales, and pre-hospital thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction and stroke assessment program. She is the Chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section. She was previously a Harkness Fellow with the Commonwealth Fund and completed a fellowship in Geriatric EM at Weill Cornell Medical School, New York, New York. She is an invited author for the Acute Geriatric Series in Emergency Medicine Australasia, a series to improve the engagement and knowledge of the EM community in the care of the older person. She has recently had a research grant to improve medication management in transitions of care for people with dementia.
Associate Professor Jiraporn Sri-on | Vice Chair
Thai College of Emergency Physicians
Dr Jiraporn is an Emergency Physician and chair of the Emergency Department, Vajira Hospital, Navamindardhiraj Univarsity, Bangkok, Thailand. She was previously a research fellow in geriatric emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, USA. She is clinical lead in taking care of older patients in the ED for abdominal pain, delirium, procedure sedation, palliative care and the project “Develop the health system to improve quality of health status, Independent Living, Maintenance of Balance, among older urban adults with trauma (falls) of Thai Health Promotion organization.” She is chair of the academic section, Thai College of Emergency Physician. She has been involved in the development of stroke clinical practice guidelines for Thai emergency physicians. Her research focus is on delirium, falls, pain management and dehydration among older ED patients.
Expressions of interest are invited from individuals from IFEM Member organisations and individuals with an interest in GEM. Nominations by your organisation, or self-nominations by individuals within your organisation, should be forwarded to the IFEM Secretariat.
e-mail contacts for members below may also be requested via the IFEM Secretariat.
1. Australia
Dr Carolyn Hullick (Chair)
Prof. Peter Cameron
Dr Mya Cubitt
Dr Michelle Withers
Dr Judy Lowthian
Dr Guruprasad Nagaraj
Dr Julie Considine
Dr Paul Simpson
Dr Linda Schnitker
Dr Linda Ross
Dr Ogilvie Thom
Dr Jenny Love
Dr Len Gray
Dr Elizabeth Marsden
Dr Glenn Arendts
Nemat Alsaba
Bindiya Rai
Easwaran Krishnan
Eric Van Puymbroeck
Farzad Jazayeri
Helen Rawson
John Roe
Kate Taliana
Dr Sheryl Twedell
Margaret Fry
Nemat Alsabar (Conference Lead)
Nigel Barr
Peter Roberts
Viet Tran
Rajesh Malik
Nadia Bowman
2. Argentina
Dr Dario Eduardo Garcia
3. Canada
Dr Audrey-Anne Brousseau (Communications Lead)
Dr Michael Bullard
Dr Debra Eagles
Dr Brittany Ellis (Secretary)
[email protected]
Dr Marcel Emond
Dr Jacques Lee
Dr Andrew Costa
Dr Patrick Archambault
Dr Eric Mercier
Elizabeth Lalande
Kristin Morch
Rebecca Schonnop
4. Chile
Dr Oscar Navea
Luis Enberg
5. Costa Rica
Dr Alejandro Moya Alvarez (Regional Lead – South America)
6. Denmark
Dr Helene Skjoet-Arkil
Dr Inge Hansen-Brun
Joas John Kyabonaki
7. Hong Kong
Dr Paul Ho
Dr Patric Leung
8. India
Dr Srinath Kumar
Dr Imron Subhan
Dr Rishal Rahman
Saisurendar M (Regional Lead- Asia)
9. Japan
Dr Shoji Yokobori
10. Malaysia
Dr Nik Rahman
Dr Chung Wai Mun
Dr Mohd Idzwan bin Zakaria
11. Peru
Dr Sayuri Enriquez
Maribel Juscamayta Tabraj
12. Mexico
Dr Diana Lemus
Gustavo a Gutierrez Reyes
Myrna Ibarra Gómez
Lilia Hortensia Baruch Hernández
13. Netherlands
Dr Simon Mooijaart
Jacinta A. Lucke
14. New Zealand
Dr Paul Quigley
Alastair MacLean
David Levy
Paul Quigley
Scott Pearson
15. Singapore
Dr Colin Ong
Dr Foo Chik Loon
Dr Vivian Siu
Audrey Tham
Poh Juliana
16. Sweden
Dr Fredrik Sjöstrand
Miriam Bernieri
17. Switzerland
Dr Christian Nickel (Regional Lead – Europe)
18. Thailand
Dr Jiraporn Sri-On (Vice-Chair)
19. Turkey
Dr Murat Çetin
20. United Kingdom
Prof Suzanne Mason
Dr Jay Banerjee
Dr Simon Conroy
Dr Rose Galvin
James van Oppen
21. United States of America
Dr. Chris Carpenter
Dr Kevin Biese
Dr Ula Hwang
Dr Michael Stern
Dr Jeffrey Caterino
Dr Tess Hogan
Dr Shusen Sun
Dr Luiz Hargreaves
Dr Alexander Lo
Dr Michael Girardi
Michael Hargreaves
Shan Liu (Membership Lead)
Tim Platts-Mills (Regional Lead – North America)
Terrence Mulligan
22. West Indies
Dr Ian Sammy
Dr Jean Williams-Johnson
23. Colombia
Ernesto Brun Rocha
24. Yemen
Fouad Ahmed Ali
Moajeb Saleh
25. Ireland
Aine Mitchell
26. Israel
Roei varona
27. Jamaica
Jean Williams Johnson
28. Nepal
Ramesh Kumar Maharjan
29. Oman
Ammar Al-Kashmiri
30. Philippines
Bernadett Pua Velasco
Bernadett Velasco
31. Poland
Juliusz Jakubaszko
32. South Africa
Dries Engelbrecht
33. Uganda
John Bosco Kumugisha
Australia and New Zealand
Dr Guruprasad Nagaraj
Australian College for Emergency Medicine
[email protected]
Canada
Dr Debra Eagles
Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
[email protected]
Costa Rica
Dr Alejandro Moya
Asociacion Costarricense de Medicos Emergenciologos
[email protected]
China
Dr Patrick Leung
Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine
[email protected]
Hungary
Dr Tamas Berenyi
Hungarian Society of Emergency Medicine
[email protected]
Malaysia
Dr Mohd Idzwan bin Zakaria
College of Emergency Physicians Academy of Medicine Malaysia
[email protected]
Peru
Spain
Dr Javier Martín Sánchez
Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias
[email protected]
Dr Carles Ferre Losa
Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias
[email protected]
Sweden
Dr Miriam Bernieri
Swedish Society for Emergency Medicine
[email protected]
Switzerland
Dr Christian Nickel
Swiss Society of Emergency and Rescue Medicine
[email protected]
Turkey
Dr Murat Çetin
Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey
[email protected]
United Kingdom
Dr Jaydip Banerjee
Royal College of Emergency Medicine
[email protected]
United States of America
Dr Mark Rosenberg
American College of Emergency Physicians
[email protected]
Vietnam
Dr Tran Quang Thang
Vietnamese Society of Emergency Medicine
[email protected]
This White Paper highlights that older people are the fastest growing demographic in most countries; that they access emergency services for many different reasons; and that it is essential to consider their multiple needs when developing emergency care systems. Addressing the needs of the whole person, even at times of acute illness or injury, offers a great opportunity to improve older people’s lives. This paper provides guidance to health care systems by stating general principles and giving practical examples that can be modified across all income and resource settings.
The Silver Book II is a collaborative response to a pressing need to address how older people are cared for over the first 24 hours of an urgent care episode.
This document is a policy of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and relates to the recommended standards of care for older persons in the Emergency Department
Statement on Minimum Standards for the Care of Older People in Emergency Departments by the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine.
The Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines document is the product of two years of consensus-based work that included representatives from the American College of Emergency Physicians, The American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
This position statement represents the views of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine. This statement was approved by the ANZSGM Federal Council on 5 May 2015.
Personalized e-learning in Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Each of the six modules in this website is designed to provide in-depth knowledge about issues in geriatric emergency medicine to physicians working in Emergency Departments who want to provide optimal care to their older patients.
Geriatric Emergency Medicine podcast
GEMCAST is a Geriatric Emergency Medicine Podcast : A series of lectures on clinical topics to help physicians, trainees, nurses, and paramedics who take care of older adults particularly in the acute care setting.
The Portal Of Geriatric Online education
A comprehensive and free collection of expert-contributed geriatrics educational materials for educators and learners.
Acute Geriatric series published in Emergency Medicine Australasia
The Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group (GEMSIG) fosters and promotes quality clinical care for older people in emergency departments throughout Australia and New Zealand.
British Geriatric Society blog
The BGS blog aims to presents issues relevant to people working to improve the health and care of older people. It will highlight the latest news and activities from across all the BGS campaigns, events, publications and activities as well as original articles commissioned by leaders in geriatric medicine.
The Portal Of Geriatric Online education
This is a consensus document developed by identified experts to set a minim of performance standards that all residents should be able to demonstrate by completion of residency training.
The basic courses are designed to improve your knowledge of the basic principles of geriatric emergency care with an emphasis on quality of care issues. The content is presented through questions, most of which are case-based.
Geriatric Emergency Medicine researchers are numerous and very productive. Here are a few recent and/or strong articles that changed and continue to improve care for older adults in the emergency department.
A controlled evaluation of comprehensive geriatric assessment in the emergency department: The Emergency Frailty Unit
Simon Paul Conroy, Kharwar Ansari, Mark Williams, Emily Laithwaite, Ben Teasdale, Jeremy Dawson, Suzanne Mason, Jay Banerjee
2013
Disseminating and sustaining emergency department innovations for older adults: good ideas deserve better policies
Alexander X.Lo and Kevin Biese
2017
Profiles of Older Patients in the Emergency Department: Findings From the interRAI Multinational Emergency Department Study
Leonard C. Gray, Nancye M. Peel, Andrew P. Costa, Ellen Burkett, Aparajit B. Dey, Palmi V. Jonsson, Prabha Lakhan, Gunnar Ljunggren, Fredrik Sjostrand, Walter Swoboda, Nathalie I. H. Wellens, John Hirdes
2013
Geriatric Syndromes Predict Postdischarge Outcomes Among Older Emergency Department Patients: Findings From the interRAI Multinational Emergency Department Study
Andrew P. Costa, John P. Hirdes, George A. Heckman, Aparajit B. Dey, Palmi V. Jonsson, Prabha Lakhan, Gunnar Ljunggren, Katrin Singler, Fredrik Sjostrand, Walter Swoboda, Nathalie I.H. Wellens, Leonard C. Gray
2014
Identification of older adults with frailty in the Emergency Department using a frailty index: results from a multinational study
Audrey-Anne Brousseau, Elsa Dent, Ruth Hubbard, Don Melady, Marcel Émond, Éric Mercier, Andrew Costa
2017
Risk stratification and rapid geriatric screening in an emergency department – a quasi-randomised controlled trial
Chik Loon Foo, Vivan Wing Yin Siu, Hou Ang, Madeline Wei Ling Phuah, Chee Kheong Ooi
2014
Paramedics assessing Elders at Risk for Independence Loss (PERIL): Derivation, Reliability and Comparative Effectiveness of a Clinical Prediction Rule
Jacques S. Lee, P. Richard Verbeek, Michael J. Schull, Lisa Calder, Ian G. Stiell, John Trickett, Laurie J. Morrison, Michael Nolan, Brian H. Rowe, Sunil Sookram David Ryan, Alex Kiss, Gary Naglie
2016
Geriatric-Specific Triage Criteria Are More Sensitive Than Standard Adult Criteria in Identifying Need for Trauma Center Care in Injured Older Adults
Chwan B, Darbha S, Shah M N, Thompson L, Evans DC, Boulger CT, Caterino JM
2015
Polypharmacy and potential drug-drug interactions in emergency department patients in the Caribbean
Darrent Dookeeram, Satesh Bidaise, Joanne F. Paul, Paula Nunes, Paula Robertson, Vidya Ramcharitar Maharaj, Ian Sammy
2017
Risk Factors and Screening Instruments to Predict Adverse Outcomes for Undifferentiated Older Emergency Department Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysi
Christopher R. Carpenter, Erica Shelton, Susan Fowler, Brian Suffoletto, Timothy F. Platts-Mills, Richard E. Rothman, Teresita M. Hogan
2014
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