Specialties
Geriatric Medicine
Delirium, falls, frailty, and medicine in later life.
Presentations
Ward cases
Climbing over the bedrail
An 82-year-old admitted with a urine infection is found trying to leave the ward at three in the morning.
Day three, and she does not know where she is
An 84-year-old admitted with a hip fracture, now post-operative day 2, was 'sharp as a tack' on admission. This morning she thinks it is 1974.
Found on the floor at 06:00
An 88-year-old found on her bedroom floor by her carer, unable to say how long she had been there. Nine regular medications. Admitted 'for a social sort-out'.
Interpretation drills
