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Geriatric Emergencies

A discussion-based review

 

Edited by

Amal Mattu

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, USA

 

Shamai A. Grossman

Harvard Medical School, USA
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts, USA

 

Peter L. Rosen

Harvard Medical School, USA
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts, USA

 

 

Associate Editors

 

Robert Anderson, MD

Christopher Carpenter, MD, MSC

Andrew Chang, MD, MS

Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD

Ula Hwang, MD, MPH

Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH

Don Melady, MD, MSC(Ed)

Vaishal Tolia, MD, MPH

Scott Wilber, MD, MPH

 

 

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List of Contributors

  1. Nissa J. Ali, MD
  2. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  3. Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency
  4. Department of Emergency Medicine
  5. West Campus Clinical Center
  6. Boston, MA, USA
  1. Robert S. Anderson, Jr., MD
  2. Assistant Professor
  3. Tufts University School of Medicine
  4. Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine and Division of Geriatric Medicine
  5. Maine Medical Center
  6. Portland, ME, USA
  1. Kevin Biese, MD, MAT
  2. Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel
  5. Hill, NC, USA
  1. Michael C. Bond, MD
  2. Associate Professor, Residency Program Director
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Alexander Bromfield, MD
  2. Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine
  3. University of California San Diego Health System
  4. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Kenneth H. Butler, DO
  2. Associate Professor, Associate Residency Program Director
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Colleen Campbell, MD
  2. Associate Clinical Professor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Division of Emergency Ultrasound
  5. University of California San Diego Health System
  6. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Alessandro Cancelliere, MD PhD
  2. Assistant Professor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of Massachusetts Medical School
  5. Worcester, MA, USA
  1. Christopher R. Carpenter, MD, MSc
  2. Associate Professor
  3. Division of Emergency Medicine
  4. Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  5. St. Louis, MO, USA
  1. Andrew K. Chang, MD, MS
  2. Vincent P. Verdile Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs
  3. Professor of Emergency Medicine
  4. Albany Medical College
  5. Attending Physician
  6. Albany Medical Center
  7. Albany, New York
  1. Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH
  2. Professor of Medicine and Head, Division of Health Care Policy and Research
  3. Director
  4. Care Transitions Program University of Colorado Denver
  5. Anschutz Medical Campus
  6. Aurora, CO, USA
  1. Elizabeth Couser, MSW
  2. Gerontology PhD Candidate
  3. Doctoral Program in Gerontology
  4. University of Maryland
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Susanne DeMeester, MD
  2. Attending Physician and Director Emergency Observation Center
  3. St Joseph Mercy Hospital
  4. Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  1. Jonathan Edlow, MD
  2. Vice-Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  4. Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine
  5. Harvard Medical School
  6. Boston, MA, USA
  1. Benjamin W. Friedman, MD, MS
  2. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  3. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  4. Montefiore Medical Center
  5. Bronx, NY, USA
  1. Shamai A. Grossman, MD
  2. Associate Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine
  3. Harvard Medical School
  4. Vice Chair for Health Care Quality
  5. Director
  6. Observation Medicine
  7. Department of Emergency Medicine
  8. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  9. Boston, MA, USA
  1. Kama Guluma, MD
  2. Clinical Professor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of California San Diego Health System
  5. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Marianne Haughey, MD
  2. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  3. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  4. Jacobi Medical Center
  5. Bronx, New York, NY, USA
  1. Bryan Hayes, PharmD
  2. Clinical Associate Professor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD
  2. Professor
  3. Departments of Emergency Medicine and of Epidemiology and Public Health
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Teresita M. Hogan, MD
  2. Director of Geriatric Emergency Medicine
  3. Department of Medicine
  4. Sections of Emergency Medicine and Geriatrics & Palliative Care
  5. The University of Chicago
  6. Chicago, IL, USA
  1. Ula Hwang, MD, MPH
  2. Associate Professor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
  5. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  6. New York, NY
  7. Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center
  8. James J. Peters VAMC
  9. Bronx, NY, USA
  1. Joshua W. Joseph, MD
  2. Fellow in Clinical Informatics
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  5. Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine
  6. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  1. Maura Kennedy, MD, MPH
  2. Associate Director for Emergency Medicine Research
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  5. Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  6. Harvard Medical School
  7. Boston, MA, USA
  1. Phillip D. Magidson, MD, MPH
  2. Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medicine
  3. University of Maryland Medical Center
  4. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Amal Mattu, MD
  2. Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Colleen M. McQuown, MD
  2. Associate Professor, Northeast Ohio Medical University
  3. Rootstown, OH, USA
  4. Associate Research Director
  5. Department of Emergency Medicine
  6. Summa Akron City Hospital
  7. Akron, OH, USA
  1. Don Melady, MD, MSc(Ed)
  2. Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre
  3. Mount Sinai Hospital
  4. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine
  5. University of Toronto
  6. Toronto, ON, Canada
  1. Siamak Moayedi, MD
  2. Assistant Professor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Barbara Morano, MPH, LCSW
  2. Program Manager
  3. Department of Geriatrics
  4. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  5. New York, NY, USA
  1. Carmen Morano, PhD, LCSW
  2. Associate Professor
  3. Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
  4. Director
  5. Silberman Aging: A Hartford Center of Excellence in Diverse Aging
  6. Managing Editor
  7. Journal of Gerontological Social Work
  8. New York, NY, USA
  1. Denise Nassisi, MD
  2. Director of the Geriatric Emergency Department
  3. Mount Sinai Medical Center
  4. Associate Professor Departments of Emergency Medicine & Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  5. New York, NY, USA
  1. Rebecca Nerenberg, MD
  2. Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Montefiore Medical Center
  5. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  6. Bronx, NY, USA
  1. Charles W. O'Connell, MD
  2. Clinical Instructor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Division of Medical Toxicology
  5. University of California San Diego Health System
  6. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Ruben E. Olmedo, MD
  2. Director
  3. Division of Toxicology
  4. Department of Emergency Medicine
  5. Mount Sinai Medical Center
  6. Assistant Professor
  7. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  8. New York, NY, USA
  1. Jason Ondrejka, DO
  2. Summa Akron City Hospital
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Akron, OH, USA
  1. Leslie C. Oyama, MD
  2. Associate Clinical Professor
  3. Associate Residency Director
  4. University of California San Diego Health System
  5. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Timothy C. Peck, MD
  2. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  3. Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency
  4. Department of Emergency Medicine
  5. West Campus Clinical Center
  6. Boston, MA, USA
  1. Peter L. Rosen, MD
  2. Senior Lecturer Emergency Medicine
  3. Harvard Medical School
  4. Attending Emergency Physician Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center
  5. Visiting Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
  6. University of Arizona School of Medicine Tucson
  7. Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine
  8. University of California
  9. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Roxanna Sadri, MD
  2. Department of Emergency Medicine
  3. University of California San Diego Health System
  4. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Nicholas Santavicca, MD
  2. Fellow, Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine/Critical Care Program
  3. University of Maryland Medical Center
  4. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Davut Savaser, MD
  2. Clinical Instructor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Division of Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine
  5. University of California San Diego Health System
  6. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. John G. Schumacher, PhD
  2. Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor
  3. Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  4. University of Maryland
  5. Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Kirk A. Stiffler, MD, MPH
  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Summa Akron City Hospital
  3. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  4. Northeast Ohio Medical University
  5. Akron, OH, USA
  1. Tania D. Strout, PhD, RN, MS
  2. Associate Professor
  3. Tufts University School of Medicine
  4. Director of Research
  5. Department of Emergency Medicine
  6. Maine Medical Center
  7. Portland, ME, USA
  1. Alison Southern, MD
  2. Associate Program Director, Department of Emergency Medicine
  3. Summa Health System
  4. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  5. Northeast Ohio Medical University
  6. Akron, OH, USA
  1. Vaishal Tolia, MD, MPH
  2. Associate Clinical Professor
  3. Emergency & Internal Medicine
  4. Medical Director & Director of Observation Medicine
  5. Department of Emergency Medicine
  6. UCSD Health System
  7. San Diego, CA
  1. Mercedes Torres, MD
  2. Clinical Assistant Professor
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Julie Watkins-Torrey, MD
  2. Resident Physician
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of California San Diego Health System
  5. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Katren Tyler, M.B.B.S.
  2. Associate Professor and Associate Program Director, Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director, Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Wellness and Outreach
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. University of California, Davis
  5. Sacramento, CA, USA
  1. Gabriel Wardi, MD
  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Fellow, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Diego Health System
  3. San Diego, CA, USA
  1. Scott Wilber, MD, MPH
  2. Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
  3. Summa Health System
  4. Professor of Emergency Medicine
  5. Northeast Ohio Medical University
  6. Akron, Ohio, USA
  1. Michael Winters, MD
  2. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine
  3. Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medicine
  4. University of Maryland School of Medicine
  5. Baltimore, MD, USA
  1. Richard E. Wolfe, MD
  2. Chief of Emergency Medicine
  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  4. Boston, MA, USA
  1. Alexandra Wong, BA
  2. Research Associate
  3. Department of Medicine
  4. Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Care
  5. The University of Chicago
  6. Chicago, IL, USA
  1. Kate D. Zimmerman, DO
  2. Assistant Professor
  3. Tufts University School of Medicine, Associate Director of Medical Student Education
  4. Department of Emergency Medicine
  5. Maine Medical Center
  6. Portland, ME, USA