Search Tag: falls

ICU Management

2024 02 Jun

  According to a study by UC San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Health Care System, approximately 13% of older adults are diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI), typically caused by ground-level falls. The findings are published in JAMA.   Researchers tracked around 9,200 Medicare enrollees, with an average age of 75 at the study’s outset....Read more

Health Management

2022 23 Dec

James Frith is a consultant physician and geriatrician in Newcastle, England. He is also a researcher at the Newcastle University. His academic interests focus on orthostatic hypotension, in particular, the non-drug treatments of orthostatic hypotension that significantly overlap with falls and syncope. HealthManagement. org spoke to Dr Frith on the...Read more