Impact of a Very Short-Stay Post-Emergency Geriatric Unit on Early Readmissions.

Background And Objectives: In 2017, our French 1671-bed university hospital opened a 12-bed unit for very short stays, post-emergency (unit of transitory admission in geriatric [UTAG] area), dedicated to frail patients older than 75 years requiring short-term care. We sought to investigate whether this new organization's shortened length of stay (LOS) was associated or not with a higher rate of readmission.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective descriptive study based on the daily activity of the UTAG over 6 months including all patients consecutively hospitalized in the unit via the computerized medical file of the hospital.

Tolerability of Midazolam to treat acute agitation in elderly demented patients: A systematic review.

What Is Known And Objective: Behavioural disorders are difficult to manage in elderly demented patients because of the lack of appropriate drugs or difficulties surrounding the route of administration. The tolerability of Midazolam is well described in the emergency management of agitation for young patients, when administered intramuscularly or intravenously. However, very little data are available on the use of oral Midazolam for this indication and in the elderly population.

[Effectiveness of histopathologic examination in a series of 400 forensic autopsies].

Objectives: To assess the usefulness of histopathologic examination in forensic autopsies.

Material And Methods: All consecutive pathological reports and slides from forensic autopsies performed in our department since 2006 have been reviewed.

Results: Four hundred forensic necropsies were reviewed.

Adult Hirschsprung's disease diagnosed during forensic autopsy.

We report a case of fatal Hirschsprung's disease (HD) discovered at autopsy. A 20-year-old man collapsed at home. Emergency medical personnel found him in cardiac arrest and all resuscitative efforts failed.