bgs.org.uk/blog/are-you-i… British Geriatrics Society @DhanupriyaSiva Mark Baxter

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Shocking customer service by Bensons for Beds, sent us 2 broken beds, hours spent on the phone trying to get through to customer service line. My daughter still sleeping on a mattress on the floor after weeks. Disgraceful

University Hospital Southampton 💙 rolling into Wednesday afternoon with another HIP HELPER randomisation!! HUGE thanks to maria baggott Rachel Mark Baxter and the rest of the team! 😊🎉🥳

Older patients with trauma are more stealthy - less likely to be hypotensive with major bleeding (consider SBP <110 significant) - take longer to show signs of head injury due to brain atrophy/pre-existing cognitive impairment @bbdoc3 #RCEMcpd

Opportunistic sarcopenia scoring on trauma CT can help with a multi-dimensional frailty assessment. With the development of robust AI tech this could prove a quick, helpful tool that has potential to augment prognostication and aid early decision making. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

V pleased 2 share a pre-print of an article: The changing #majortrauma disease burden from low falls in the first two decades of the 21st Century; a longitudinal analysis from the largest European Trauma Registry TARN (Trauma Audit & Research Network) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

🔊Serious injuries & older people Two new papers in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. The Frailty in Trauma Reporting (FiTR) studies. All 23 English major trauma centres. >35k older people. FiTR 1: thelancet.com/journals/lanhl… FiTR 2: thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Thanks to: ⭐️ the methodology team: Ben Carter, Roxy Short, & Omar Bouamra. ⭐️ TARN (Trauma Audit & Research Network) & Fiona Lecky. ⭐️Twitter authors: @DrPhilipBraude @EddCarlton Frances Parry Adam Gordon MBE Mark Baxter ⭐️ @casscoburn & the The Lancet Healthy Longevity team.

This study in the 23 major trauma centres in England involving 35,689 patients found that geriatrician review almost HALVES the risk of death for severely injured older adults aHR 0.43 [95% CI 0.40-0.46, p<0.0001] Fab work from CLARITY 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥳 thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Ping EM research priorities related to older peoples care @POBanerjee The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative Simon Conroy James Wallace James van Oppen Mark Baxter EuGMS - European Geriatric Medicine Society British Geriatrics Society Major Trauma Geriatrics Adam Gordon MBE David Oliver Elaine Cole @DrPhilipBraude Heather Jarman RN 💙 Emma Vardy Emily Feilding Dr Rachael Morris

Had a poor experience at Park Plaza Hotels Westminster bridge, really unimpressed with the support we received

#GeriatricEmergencyMedicine Results from University Hospital Southampton 💙 Post NICE on #headinjury. Low rate of bleeding, bleeding associated with high risk injury +/- clinical signs, time to stop scanning? Can we therefore keep people at home? British Geriatrics Society Royal College of Emergency Medicine EuGMS - European Geriatric Medicine Society #EuGMS2023 #EuGMS

Elaine Cole #ENTCconf important differences in older trauma patients in critical care #frailty

Did you miss our webinar yesterday on The GIRFT NAFF pathway ? Catch up with the recording to hear from a great line-up of speakers, inc @boahandley Chris Moulton Mark Baxter Katrina mitchell Frances Rickard NOW on our website: bit.ly/47QwMea

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