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Emergency Medicine

Fundamentals
Diagnosis At-A-Glance – from Emergency Medicine magazine
Emergency Care of the Elder Person: Instructor’s Manual – from the Society on Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)
Current Research
  Emergency Medicine Residency Training in Electrocardiogram Interpretation (Abstract) – from Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)
Development and Implementation of a Relative Value Scale for Teaching in Emergency Medicine: The Teaching Value Unit (TVU) (Abstract) – from Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)
Geriatric Falls in the ED: A 7-year longitudinal analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (Abstract) – from Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)
Medication lists and elders (Abstract) – from Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)
Performing a geriatric assessment of elderly patients in the ER can reduce later nursing home admissions – from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Effect of Screening Exams on the Care of Elder Emergency Department Patients with Mental Status Impairment (Abstract) – from Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)
Utility of a Triage Risk Screening Tool to Predict Health Care Outcomes in Older Emergency Department Patients (Abstract) – from Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)
Additional Resources
Cases for Professionalism and Ethics – Power Point slides from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)
Bibliography
Bibliography in Geriatrics and Emergency Medicine – from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)

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Photograph of David Gamse speaking.