Competency in Geriatric Emergency Department Capacity Assessments (AGEM Sponsored)
This session will prepare the learner on how to rapidly and accurately make an appropriate determination as to decisional making capacity in geriatric ED patients with a focus on advanced directive evaluations and care of patients with dementia/delirium. Through case-based learning, our discussion will define what capacity is (and is not), review the steps in determining patient capacity and highlight documentation pearls all emergency medicine physicians MUST know. At the conclusion of the session, learners will be able to outline the key elements of a patient capacity assessment, implement a standard approach to accurately and concisely documenting capacity assessment and describe nuances associated with capacity assessments in geriatric patients.
Presenter:
- PHILLIP MAGIDSON, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACP
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Phillip Magidson, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACP
Johns Hopkins University
I'm an emergency medicine physician and geriatrician with a special interest in geriatric emergency medicine and acute care of older adults. I received my medical degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC and completed a combined emergency medicine/internal medicine residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD followed by a geriatric fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, also in Baltimore, MD. Currently, I'm on faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with dual appointments in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. Although I spend the bulk of my clinical time in the emergency department, championing the care of older adults, I actively practice inpatient internal medicine and inpatient geriatric consultation.