Academic Emergency Medicine’s call for articles for a special issue on Geriatric Emergency Medicine received so many submissions that they are actually running two special issues!
The first is now published online (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1553-2712.geriatric-emergency-medicine-part-1) and contains the first of the US Geriatric ED Guidelines 2.0 as well as original research on frailty trigger tools by ETGEM member Dr Elizabeth Moloney.
ETGEM member Dr Szabolcs Gaal-Marschal has an interest in Geriatric Emergency Care Without Borders, and will be presenting on this topic at the EUSEM Congress in September. He would like to ask for your help in understanding how care, culture, and communities vary around the world, particularly in relation to financial resources for healthcare.
We would like to invite you and your colleagues to take part in a 10 minute survey for emergency care staff: https://sites.google.com/view/geriatricemergencycarewithoutb?usp=sharing
The results will be presented in Szabolcs’ presentation at EUSEM Congress.
We are delighted to announce the appointments of Dr Barry Evans and Dr Santiago Castejón Hernández as the new Chairs of the EuGMS Urgent Care Section.
Barry brings a strong background in clinical leadership including delivering the British Geriatrics Society leadership program for senior registrars and currently serves at a Divisional Medical Director at UHDB in the East Midlands, UK. Santiago brings many years experience collaborating with our Taskforce in education, quality, and research track activities. They’re looking to work collaboratively to set the direction of the SIG and strengthen our bond with ETGEM.
Congratulations on your appointments!
This session will focus on nerve blocks for individuals with hip fracture, with discussion centered on two recent studies examining ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in the emergency department:
In addition to article discussion, we will have a presentation from Emergency Medicine ultrasound faculty reviewing practical considerations for ultrasound-guided nerve blocks for hip fractures.
Date: Thursday, 05 March 2026
Time: 1100-1230 EST / 1600-1730 GMT / 1700-1830 CET
https://partners.zoom.us/j/8433001935
The project to define minimum competencies for European paramedic education in geriatric emergency medicine has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-026-01550-3
56 ETGEM members from 27 countries participated in this three year Delphi process. Many congratulations to the project leads, Dr Jan-Niklas Krohn and Prof Katrin Singler!
Our friends at the Geriatric ED Collaborative (GEDC) have just published their comprehensive GeriEM curriculum, aimed at resident-level clinicians learning about the care of older people.
There are 17 online modules on topics including delirium, chest pain, falls, trauma, and end of life care.
Registration is required. The curriculum is free and open to all.
https://www.gedcollaborative.com/resource/atypical-presentations/pathways-to-practice/
Each year, the GeriEM section dedicates several months to preparing its proposals for symposia and lectures for the EUSEM Congress. At this year’s meeting, more than 3,600 participants from 76 countries attended, and we were delighted to see our strongest engagement yet with the GeriEM programme streams.
All scientific programme proposals must be submitted through EUSEM’s various sections; there is no external open call. As we begin shaping our submission for the 2026 Congress, we warmly invite members to volunteer and propose topics or themes they believe would enrich the programme. Your insights and creativity are essential in ensuring that GeriEM remains visible and impactful within the wider EM community.
Our proposals are reviewed competitively, and in most years around half are accepted. While we cannot offer guarantees, we are committed to putting forward an ambitious programme that reflects the breadth of our membership. We look forward to receiving your suggestions before we finalise our section’s submission in early January 2026.
The EUSEM section of our European Taskforce on GeriEM is going from strength to strength! We enjoyed a well attended meeting in Vienna during the EUSEM 2025 Congress and celebrated this year’s achievements including:
Two highly successful GeriEM pre-courses took place in Vienna at the EUSEM 2025 Congress:
The SIG enjoyed a very well attended meeting in Reykjavik, chaired by Dr Steve Lim. We discussed presentations by: