Older adult falls in emergency medicine, 2023 update

KN Shankar, A Li - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2023 - geriatric.theclinics.com
Of 4 older adults, 1 will fall each year in the United States. Based on 2020 data from the
Centers of Disease Control, about 36 million older adults fall each year, resulting in 32,000 …

Telemedicine in emergency medicine in the COVID-19 pandemic—experiences and prospects—a narrative review

M Witkowska-Zimny, B Nieradko-Iwanicka - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Even before the year 2020, telemedicine has been proven to contribute to the efficacy of
healthcare systems, for example in remote locations or in primary care. However, with the …

Iris: A low-cost telemedicine robot to support healthcare safety and equity during a pandemic

S Matsumoto, S Moharana, N Devanagondi… - … on Pervasive Computing …, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated problems of already overwhelmed healthcare
ecosystems. The pandemic worsened long-standing health disparities and increased stress …

Telehealth Competencies: Training Physicians for a New Reality?

I Cruz-Panesso, I Tanoubi, P Drolet - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
In North America, telehealth increased by 40% between 2019 and 2020 and stabilized at
40% in 2021. As telehealth becomes more common, it is essential to ensure that healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual emergency care in Victoria: Stakeholder perspectives of strengths, weaknesses, and barriers and facilitators of service scale-up

D Pu, P Cameron, W Chapman, L Greenstock… - Australasian Emergency …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Virtual emergency services have been proposed as an alternative service
model to conventional in-person emergency department attendance. Methods Twenty …

Telenursing and remote patient monitoring in cardiovascular health

C Abraham, C Jensen, L Rossiter… - Telemedicine and e …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Background: Since the decline in death rates from cardiovascular diseases has slowed
down recently, promoting cardiovascular health in patients and the general public has …

United States 2020 emergency medicine resident workforce analysis

CL Bennett, CE Clay, JA Espinola… - Annals of Emergency …, 2022 - Elsevier
Study objective To characterize the emergency medicine resident physician workforce and
the residency programs training them. Methods We identified emergency medicine residents …

Simulated video-based telehealth training for emergency physicians

EM Hayden, CJ Nash, SE Farrell - Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Little exists in the literature describing video-based telehealth training,
especially for practicing Emergency Physicians. Materials and methods This was a …

A protocol to determine the acceptability and feasibility of a pilot intervention emergency department virtual observation unit fall prevention program

AE Jones, M Kennedy, EM Hayden, K Ouchi… - Pilot and feasibility …, 2024 - Springer
Background As a third of all community dwellers aged 65+ fall each year, falls are common
reasons for older adults to present to an Emergency Department (ED). Although EDs should …

The intersection of telemedicine and wilderness care: past, present, and future

CB Davis, AK Lorentzen, H Patel… - Wilderness & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Wilderness medicine and telemedicine seemingly exist at opposite ends of the clinical
continuum. However, these 2 specialties share a common history and the literature abounds …