Geriatric
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Regardless of what option turns out to best fit your family’s needs, there are some very important points to remember as you’re making choices
First responders worked together to help evacuate 82 residents and five staff members from a three-alarm fire at a senior living facility
A significant portion of first responders had new onset cognitive impairment years after their first initial cognitive test
Our co-hosts discuss the three techniques EMS providers should use to determine if a patient has the mental capacity to decline medical treatment
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The Vitals first responder app is a non-intrusive, real-time resource developed as a way to give individuals with various conditions more peace of mind
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Heartland Ambulance Service transported Karen Vaughn to the polls after a mix-up with her absentee ballot required her to vote in person
A federal report found that care related to sepsis was the most common reason given for transfers of nursing home residents to hospitals
A new study suggests paramedics are spending a month’s worth of time each year assisting geriatric patients after falls
“Of course, everybody of all ages get hurt, but the ones who get sick often tend to be the elderly,” nurse Wesley Milum said
Bruce Moeller offers strategies for tackling the aging population, dubbed the “silver tsunami,” at Fire-Rescue Med 2018
An expert said the Rehabilitation Center didn’t have nearly enough portable units and those they had wound up heating much of the facility
Improve your patient assessment of traumatic injuries in geriatric medicine
Crew members said they were only focused on transporting the patient who was the subject of the current 911 call
AMR’s “Home for the Holidays” program takes nursing-home patients to their families’ homes and back, at no charge
At first there was no hint of distress in the 911 calls, no sense of a crisis unfolding
Envoy America provides transportation options such as scheduled ambulances or services such as Lyft
You are dispatched to a report of an elderly female experiencing weakness
EMS providers can “Identify-Report-Refer” to help improve a patient’s health through strengthening the patient’s social connections
Follow these methods to successfully assess and treat older patients
It’s easy for fire and EMS departments to poorly serve this growing demographic, but training can improve that
Centre LifeLink EMS responds to calls involving Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia almost daily
Your patient has an apparent hip fracture after a fall and needs to be packaged for transport; did you make the right call?
You are dispatched to an independent living facility for a senior citizen who has fallen
The habits we learn to care for ourselves and others go with us off-duty into our personal lives
Our co-hosts discuss how one program is teaching paramedics how to deal and empathize with dementia patients by using virtual training
The program teaches responders how to approach dementia patients and allows them to experience the symptoms
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