2024 Complication Emergency Room ER 
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. It happened to my mother.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. This is before value-based care, all of that.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
98 
Let's personalize your content