CWTCH in the community: Improving education to reduce adverse outcomes for patients who fall in nursing homes.

Falls in nursing homes (NH) are common and cause significant morbidity and mortality. We proposed that by improving staff education, the volume of emergency calls, hospital conveyance and adverse patient outcomes could be reduced. An analysis of the volume of emergency calls coded as Falls from January 2020 to February 2022, with 4907 calls in total, 866 were falls (17.

Diabetes management in older adults who fall: a study amongst older adults presenting to the emergency department.

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is associated with poor health outcomes whilst tight glycaemic targets are questionable in those aged over 70 years with increased frailty. Our aim was to examine whether people with T2D admitted to hospital with a fall, were more likely to have greater frailty, increased mortality and co-morbidity burden, or risk factors for falls than people without T2D, and whether these differences were associated with medications used for the treatment of T2D.

Methods: The Older Persons Assessment Service (OPAS) is a local emergency department (ED) service, which accepts patients on frailty criteria.

Weekly Intramuscular Injection of Levothyroxine following Myxoedema: A Practical Solution to an Old Crisis.

An 82-year-old female with known hypothyroidism was admitted to hospital after being found on the floor. On examination, she was unkempt, confused, bradycardic, hypothermic, and barely arousable. Initial biochemistry revealed a thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) of >100 mU/L and free thyroxine (FT4) level of 1.