BMC Emergency Medicine have announced a call for papers for their special collection on GeriEM: https://bit.ly/3DTepuT

This collection invites clinicians and researchers to contribute to the field of geriatric emergency medicine by exploring the unique challenges and opportunities in caring for older adults in emergency settings. Submissions will undergo peer review, and it should be noted that BMC Emergency Medicine is an open access journal with article processing charges.

BMC Emergency Medicine special collection on GeriEM – call for papers

An incredible 400 participants from all around the world have registered for our ecourse on Palliative Care in the Emergency Department!

The eCourse is free of charge and can be accessed through the EUSEM Academy elearning platform:
https://eusem.org/education/courses-traineeships/palliative-care-in-the-emergency-department-ecourse

We are pleased to announce our first joint webinar with the ACEP GeriEM section, on the topic of Exploring Geriatric ED Accreditation and featuring European speaker and expert Thomas Dreher-Hummel.

The webinar is scheduled for Monday 17 March 2025 at 11am US Central Time (5pm UK, 6pm CET). Please register through the ACEP platform: https://learn.acep.org/cw/course-details?entryId=17538956

Forty-eight new recommendations for critical care for people aged 85+ have been produced by a multi-disciplinary expert consortium. The researchers conducted a Delphi study, and the findings have been endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

The group’s recommendations give us food for thought on the core principles, values, and competences of acute geriatrics care, as the themes and topics bear many similarities with the GeriEM recommendations from our own European Taskforce.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-025-07794-4

The European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine (ETGEM), a collaboration between GeriEM sections of the European Society for Emergency Medicine and the European Geriatric Medicine Society, published their expert clinical recommendations in 2022: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-021-00578-1.

The collaboration subsequently produced eight posters covering major recommendations and an accompanying podcast series. The posters are available in English, German, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, and – brand new for 2025 and co-ordinated by Santiago Castejon-Hernandez – Spanish: https://posters.geriemeurope.eu/

The 2023 FEED Study reported the prevalence of Frailty in European Emergency Departments, using consecutive administration of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) for all older people attending 62 hospitals during a 24 hour period.

In this new sub-study analysing data ‘missingness’ in routine CFS administrations conducted immediately prior to the FEED Study’s cohort recruitment, researchers share the concerning finding that over half of mandated observations were being missed. Those people who were not white, or who had lower acuity presentations were disproportionately likely to have their CFS missing.

The paper provides some food for thought for clinicians and managers working in centres where frailty screening is used, as attention to studying and improving implementation is almost certainly necessary. Meanwhile, researchers using frailty screening outcomes in routine datasets must carefully consider the provenance and completeness of data while determining the validity of their analyses.

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.

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

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.