Geriatric Emergency Medicine: An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics

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Anybody who has worked in emergency medicine for more than a few years has undoubtedly noticed a changing patient population: emergency department (ED) patients are getting older. The elderly represent the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and it is clearly reflected in the patients presenting to the nation
s EDs and hospitals. The elderly currently constitute [15% of all ED patients, 40% of all ambulance arrivals to the ED, and almost 50% of all intensive care unit admissions. These patients tend to have greater comorbidities, they have more complicated workups, they utilize more laboratory and radiologic services, and they have longer lengths of stay in the ED and in the hospital than younger patients. Despite these more extensive workups, the rate of misdiagnoses, delayed diagnoses, and ED bouncebacks among discharged elderly patients is higher. The resulting morbidity and mortality in this patient group is also much higher than in younger patients with similar chief complaints.

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Published in 2006
Published by Saunders Company
Author Brendan Magauran
ISBN 1416036148

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