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Celebrating women in our team leading research - last year’s amazing authors Frances Rickard Frances Parry Sarah Ibitoye @JoughinAndrea Dr Amy Crees & Roxy Short And this year’s superb authors Hollie Garbett, Lydia Neuberger, Emma Thorman, Ramya Nitharsen & Beth Norman #IWD2022

First site initiation meeting for the DEFINE(surgery) study today - Decisions Encompassing Frailty in New Environments. 5 sites ready to go: With Dr Terry Quinn💙 arturo vilches Nahida bashir Frances Parry Dave Burberry, and Phyo Kyaw Myint.

Thomas Shanahan (Dr.) MRCEM Simon Carley Karim Brohi #hello I'm Dr Kirsty 🏳️‍🌈 @codingbrown Josh Miller @MyaCubitt James Wallace Anna Vondy 🤔 Unless high suspicion of unstable cervical spine injury, put the hard collars in the bin and allow older people to sit up in the ED department ASAP; long waits lying flat in collar = Pneumonia, delirium, pain, pressure sores, dysphagia, death 🤷🏼‍♂️

🔊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…

Recommended reading: 'A national study of 23 major trauma centres to investigate the effect of frailty on clinical outcomes in older people admitted with serious injury in England (FiTR 1): a multicentre observational study' via The Lancet Healthy Longevity doi.org/10.1016/S2666-… #BGSconf

I’ve not seen this before….but is there anything on the page to disagree with?

Med reg on changeover day x.com/Andrew__Albert…

And DEFINE(surgery) has closed! Recruited 214 surgical healthcare professionals from 11 hospitals across England, Scotland, and Wales sharing their views on frailty 🏆 Thank you to all those that helped setup and participated 👏🏼

Geriatricians are artisans, treating a frail patient is like repairing an antique Rolex watch, each cog precisely and carefully aligned. When you come along and slap the patient on Bendroflumethiazide, its like attaching a Casio strap.

New editorial BJS -Detecting mild-to-moderate #frailty should lead to proactive risk management, not complete avoidance of surgery -Severe frailty: think care v cure -Surgeons should build collaborative services w/ colleagues specialized in frailty academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

Our latest research: death, length of stay, readmissions all linked to how we deliver hip fracture care. Many opportunities for QI work across the UK. Shows value of NHFD audit tinyurl.com/5afp9z3r University of Bristol Versus Arthritis Falls & Fragility Fracture Audit Programme

September 2022 Papers Podcast •Impact of an early geriatrician assessment on the mortality in trauma patients •Abdominal compression-decompression + CPR in arrest •Managing TMJ dislocations itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… open.spotify.com/show/4pGoo1XFn… TheResusRoom.co.uk #FOAMed

As a Geriatrician and a fellow human, what an example of positive ageing & and what a way to go; at home, with family, comfortably, quickly and enjoying life up until your final days. What a woman.

What can we learn? That dying is inevitable, recognisable, describable, and that we can prepare for it. The Queen had clearly planned ahead. That at the edge of life, we can still enjoy love, and peace, and companions. That we need to get familiar with dying. 12/12

Gabapentin is often prescribed after surgery to prevent/treat pain-Faith based belief it is safer than opiods. Here is more evidence it is not helpful and may be harmful ja.ma/3LrVfMb JAMA Internal Medicine

First speaker of the day is Dr David David Shipway ❔What is perioperative medicine? ❔Why is it needed? ❔What is the role of the physician in perioperative medicine?

Going to have a rant. 82yo lady post hip fracture. No HF symptoms but someone does a BNP. 11000. Echo EF 19%. Cardio reg + HF nurse spiro, dapagliflozin and sorry while I compose myself ENTRESTO. Pt euvolaemic + asymptomatic. Read your own guidelines guys. I’m stopping them all.

Read the full Age_and_Ageing paper 'Building resilience and reversing #frailty: a randomised controlled trial of a primary care intervention for older adults' doi.org/10.1093/ageing…

The SIG Gero-Oncology of EuGMS - European Geriatric Medicine Society is growing up! Thank you all participants for your productive contributions. Cecilia Lund Jesper Ryg Ann-Kristine Weber Giger Bérengére BEAUPLET Carly Welch Suzanne Festen Robin Daly Gulistan Bahat Doktor Zelal Şahin Cingiler Isabelle Bourdel-Marchasson