Anatomy
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Physiology
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Physiology
With aging, bones lose mass and become more likely to break.
What is decreased bone density?
This hearing-related disease is the result of heightened cochlear pressure and is caused by endolymphatic rupturing. It presents with symptoms of hearing loss, extreme vertigo, tinnitus, and inner ear pressure.
what is Ménière disease?
Ménière’s Disease. (2026, January 22). Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15167-menieres-disease
These masses decrease and often come brittle and break more easier.
What is bone mass?
Helman, A. (2021, March 31). Episode 34: Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine Cases. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/episode-34-geriatric-emergency-medicine/
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Advanced Care Planning.
What is a green sleeve?
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Reduced physiologic reserve, weakness, weight loss, and increased vulnerability to stressors.
What is frailty?
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Isolated systolic hypertension in older adults occurs because arteries become stiff and lose their ability to expand.
What is the loss of arterial elasticity?
This disease affects nearly 40% of individuals over the age of 65 and is a normal process in aging. Symptoms of this progressive age-related impairment present as loss of balance, personality changes, impulsivity, repetition of sentences or questions, and hallucinations or paranoia.
What is dementia?
What is dementia? (n.d.). Alzheimer Society of Canada. https://alzheimer.ca/en/about-dementia/what-dementia
This regulatory system becomes impaired, rising levels commonly occur.
What is raising blood glucose levels?
Helman, A. (2021, March 31). Episode 34: Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine Cases. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/episode-34-geriatric-emergency-medicine/
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Ventilating with a BVM, what is something that you might want to remove but should not.
What are dentures?
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An assessment of Asking/assessing patients if they can perform activities such as bathing, dressing, and feeding themselves.
What are activities of Daily Living (ADLS)?
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With aging, this lung change causes a vital capacity to decrease while residual volume increases.
What is decreased lung elasticity?
This condition may appear similar to dementia, but has a very sudden onset with disorientation, confusion, agitation, and mood swings. Unlike dementia, this condition can be the result of an underlying issue such as infection, disease, or drug interaction.
What is delirium?
Causes of delirium | American Geriatrics Society | HealthInAging.org. (n.d.). https://www.healthinaging.org/a-z-topic/delirium/causes
Older patients often have a “painless” symptom or describe it as “burning and indigestion” in emergent cases regarding the chest.
What is a heart attack?
Helman, A. (2021, March 31). Episode 34: Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine Cases. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/episode-34-geriatric-emergency-medicine/
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What treatments/processes can lead to integumentary tears.
What is looking for a vein for IV insertion, the tape from an IV-line, 12 lead stickers?
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Blankets, rugs, poor lighting, and clutter increase the risk of this leading cause of injury in older adults.
What is falls?
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This common age-related hearing loss involves a gradual loss of hearing in both ears and commonly occurs between ages of 65-74.
What is presbycusis?
A condition that commonly affects the geriatric population in which the systolic blood pressure sits above 130 mmHg, and the diastolic remains below 80 mmHg.
What is isolated systolic hypertension?
Isolated systolic hypertension. (2026, February 12). Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24666-isolated-systolic-hypertension
Acute confusional state however it is a symptom not a disease, that is temporary.
What is delirium?
Helman, A. (2021, March 31). Episode 34: Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine Cases. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/episode-34-geriatric-emergency-medicine/
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Concurrent use of several medications, when a patient is managing several chronic conditions.
What is polypharmacy?
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A factor often caused by living alone or having limited family connections/help can worsen health outcomes in elderly patients.
What is social isolation?
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This change in the nervous system in geriatrics patients impairs the sense of body position, making them less steady on their feet and increasing their tendency to fall.
What is impaired Proprioception?
This temperature range is considered a normal finding in geriatrics and is caused by a slowed metabollic rate and poor blood circulation.
What is 36.1°C - 37.2°C?
Bora Health Limited t/a SureSafe Alarms. (2023, November 10). Body temperature in the elderly: What’s too high, low and just right. SureSafe. https://personalalarms.org/blog/advice/body-temperature-in-the-elderly-whats-too-high-low-just-right
Bed confinement decreases blood flow to legs and feet (DVT), prevention is also based on the patient’s own risk level.
What is Pulmonary Embolism?
Helman, A. (2021, March 31). Episode 34: Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine Cases. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/episode-34-geriatric-emergency-medicine/
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Drug that has high potential of causing hypotension and bradycardia, should be used cautiously with elderly patients.
What is penthrox?
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A common infection may present with confusion or weakness rather than a fever or urinary symptoms.
What is a urinary tract infection?
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