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What is dementia?
This age and older are defined as "geriatrics".
What is 65?
A decline in cognitive ability.
What is dementia?
It has increased from 69.77 in 1960 to 78.79 in 2019.
What is the average life expectancy (in the US)?
They might sound small, but they're really a big deal!
What are "mini-strokes" (TIA)?
Combined with pulse oximetry, this is a valuable tool for pulmonary assessment.
What is capnography?
It's the height of fall that indicates potential trauma in geriatric patients.
What is any height including standing?
This stage of progression shows subtle changes including difficulty with words, reacting more emotionally, and avoiding conversation about dementia.
What is the Early Stage?
This must include the official logo in order to be considered valid.
What is Ohio DNR identification?
This visual impairment comes in wet and dry varieties.
What is macular degeneration?
These should be included in every ALOC/AMS assessment (name 3).
What are Full vitals, SpO2, Capno, Glucose, Temp, 12-Lead, Trauma Survey, Stroke Scale, PMHx, Rx
It's the number of proximal long bone fractures that categorize a geriatric for trauma triage.
What is one (1)?
This type of dementia is caused by plaque formation, abnormal tangles of nerve fibers, and cell death in the brain.
What is Alzheimer's?
These have a higher incidence of being unwitnessed, unreported, and undocumented in the elderly.
What are falls?
They include things like brain tumor, hypoxia, vitamin deficiency, sepsis, cardiac events, and medication side effects.
What are dementia mimics?
A geriatric patient may experience shock with a systolic blood pressure of this or less.
What is 110 mmHg?
A person with dementia loses the ability to communicate with words, but maintains a sense of this.
What is a sense of self?
It's the condition that activates a Medical Power of Attorney.
What is loss of capacity?
What are anticoagulants?
This should be performed even if there are no obvious signs or specific reports.
What is a trauma survey?
Trauma Triage defines a GCS of this or less for geriatric trauma patients.
What is 14?
It's characterized by sudden chaos rather than a steady decline.
What is delirium?
A physician, APRN, or PA
Who signs an Ohio DNR?
It's one of the multiple concerns with geriatrics and means taking multiple medications.
What is polypharmacy?