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.
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.
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.
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
Prior to the cross-sectional recruitment described in the headline FEED study, a survey of operational characteristics was undertaken. Here we report service structure and variation across centres in Europe: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-024-01234-w
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
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.
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
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.
During the EUSEM conference in Berlin, Germany, there are several #geriEMEurope activities, which will take place on October 16-17, 2021, open to conference delegates. We hope to see you there!
October 16, 2022
8:30-13:00; Precourse Geriatric emergency Medicine
https://eusemcongress.org/geriatric-emergency-medicine/
13:00-14:45; Emergencies in the elderly – How to improve the quality of care in your ED https://cm.eusem.org/cmPortal/searchable/eusem22/config/normal#!sessiondetails/0000004140_0
14:55-16:20 Emergencies in the elderly – Bring your problems and ask the experts
https://cm.eusem.org/cmPortal/searchable/eusem22/config/normal#!sessiondetails/0000004110_0
October 17, 2022
10:00-11:00; Geriatric emergency Medicine Section meeting (Room R3)
During the EUSEM conference in Lisbon, Portugal, there are several #geriEMEurope activities, that will all take place on October 28th 2021, open to conference delegates. Hope to see you there!
8:00-12:15; Precourse Geriatric Emergency Medicine
https://www.eusem.org/congress/registration/pre-course-2021/pc-8-geriatric-emergency-medicine
13:00-14:30: symposium ‘COVID and the elderly patients’
15:00-16:30; Symposium ‘Geriatric emergencies: Old patients – new insights
17:00-19:00 GEM section meeting (on location)