GeriEM track at WACEM 2024

Members and collaborators of the the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine have just returned from Rome, where the World Academic Congress on Emergency Medicine 2024 included two full days of GeriEM symposia and workshops.

Highlights included keynote presentations by Shan Liu on the Geriatric Emergency Department and Daniele Giudici on the role and critical importance of Clinical Pharmacy in GeriEM. Lorenz Van der Linden led an engaging workshop on medication reconciliation and deprescribing.

Congratulations to all involved, and thank you to the organisers for recognising GeriEM and Clinical Pharmacy in the programme.


Palliative Care in the Emergency Department

Members of the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine (ETGEM) have produced a brand new e-course on Palliative Care in the Emergency Department.

Participants on this free e-course are able to access a programme of recorded lectures, podcasts, and guided reflective practice. On completion, participants will receive a certificate for 5 accredited CME points.

The e-course is hosted on the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Academy platform and is free to access: https://academy.eusem.org/course/view.php?id=3


EUSEM 2024 continues!

Following Saturday’s train-the-trainer, on Sunday we enjoyed a hugely successful GeriEM bootcamp attended by 24 delegates from Europe and Australasia.

Two main auditorium symposia have followed, including ‘When the guidelines don’t fit’ by experts Drs Martina Pavletić, Peter Vanbrabant, Stephen Lim, Veronika Wunderlich-Sperl, and Thomas Dreher-Hummel.

 


EUSEM Congress: GeriEM Train-The-Trainer

Hello from Copenhagen!

We have had a great start to EUSEM Congress 2024 with our full-day Geriatric Emergency Medicine: Train-The-Trainer course. Graduates of last year’s course have delivered disseminated GeriEM training as far afield as Taipei and Kuala Lumpar, and we cannot wait to hear updates from this year’s cohort.

Our full programme of GeriEM activities continues tomorrow morning with our half-day bootcamp course, before symposia tomorrow and Monday, and our section meeting on Tuesday.


Upcoming event: EUSEM Congress 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Following an excellent week of education, research updates, and conversations with old and new GeriEM friends at the EuGMS Conference in Valencia, Spain, we are next excitedly looking ahead to the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Congress, 12-16 October in Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • Saturday 12 October: GeriEM Train-The-Trainer course SOLD OUT
  • Sunday 13 October morning: GeriEM ‘boot camp’ course SOLD OUT
  • Sunday 13 October 1630-1800: EM Geriatrics: Frailty care journeys. General session symposium
  • Monday 14 October 0900-1030: GeriEM When the guidelines don’t fit. General session symposium
  • Monday 14 October 1200: Meet the EUSEM GeriEM committee. EUSEM Podium session
  • Monday 14 October 1400: Official launch of the e-course on Palliative Care in the Emergency Department. EUSEM Podium session
  • Tuesday 15 October 1500: GeriEM section meeting (all welcome)

Read more about our courses and events here


GEM SIG meeting at EuGMS Congress 2024, Valencia

The EuGMS GEM section met today in Valencia, enjoying a very well attended session with colleagues from across Europe and worldwide.

We heard from Dr Santiago Castejon-Hernandez presenting on his system’s Geriatric Day Hospital (GDH) in Barcelona and from Dr James van Oppen presenting the results of last year’s Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED) study, as well as hearing updates on SIG activities and plans.

Next up on the agenda is ‘New models of care’ at 2pm in Auditorium 2, including an overvie



Person-centred decisions in geriatric emergency care

How can we integrate evidence-based medicine and person-centred care paradigms when reaching pragmatic decisions for complex older people using emergency care? Collaborators of the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine (the GeriEM sections of EUSEM and EuGMS) worked with members of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine to produce this framework published in Emergency Medicine Journal: https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2024-213898


Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED) study

Some 260 collaborators of the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine (ETGEM) came together to conduct the Frailty in European Emergency Departments study on 04 July 2023. This project collected observational data for all people aged 65+ who attended 62 emergency departments across 14 countries, administering the Clinical Frailty Scale.

The headline paper in European Geriatric Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-023-00926-3) reports the 40% prevalence of frailty among older people attending emergency care settings.

Further papers on the configuration of acute frailty services and concordance with frailty screening are currently under peer review.


Geriatric Emergency Medicine SIG meeting during EuGMS in Heslinki

The GEM Special Interest Group of the EuGMS met during the EuGMS conference in Heslinki, Finland on September 20th 2023.

Updates were discussed, by SIG co-chair Stephen Lim

  • a GEM curriculum is being designed for Ambulance personnel
  • the guidelines are being translated in more and more languages
  • the series of Podcasts is now online
  • the flasmob FEED study, led by James van Oppen, is being analyzed, some preliminary data were discussed. More to follow when published!

There were interesting discussion among attendants on how to organise #geriEM care in view of the challenges of shortages in personnel and money and in different healthcare setting.