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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

They weren’t hurt, they didn’t need transport, and we were seeing the same people over and over again. But what was really interesting is the transport to the hospital was actually going down in their system. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. Eric: Oh, no.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events. And, you know, this is back and forth between the PCP and the cardiologist. From my standpoint, you want to think practically, okay? A pill organizer, having family.