The Northern Region Spring Meeting 2021 was an education meeting with research presentations and update on everything Orthogeriatric. Some speakers have kindly given us permission to share their slides. Please scroll down to view and download. This content is available to BGS members and non-member attendees only.
Update on all things Orthogeriatric - Dr Roger Jay
Abstract
How do we achieve the best outcomes for our older fracture patients, and what is the evidence that we know what we are doing? A reflection on holistic care and a critical look at the evidence behind selected important areas.
Dr Roger Jay, Consultant Geriatrician, Freeman Hospital
Biography
Consultant in geriatrics and general medicine. Subspecialty orthogeriatrics. Other interests include heart failure, community geriatrics and clinical education.
Outcomes of hospitalised patients with covid-19 six months after index admission - Sharlene Jaiswal and Dr Ellen Tullo
Biographies
Sharlene Jaiswal Medical student
4th year medical student at Newcastle university, with interest in orthopaedics, orthogeriatrics and general surgery
Ellen Tullo Staff Grade/ Associate Specialist Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Tullo combines clinical sessions at a district general hospital with a role as Career development lead for NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). She is involved in UG and PG teaching in academic and clinical environments
Future planning and Parkinson’s disease in care homes during the COVID era
Biographies
Dr Chloe Parker, FY2, Sunderland Royal Hospital
I'm an FY2 working in Sunderland currently. I have a keen interest in palliative care and worked in elderly medicine for 8 months of FY1.
Dr Fionnuala Johnston Consultant Geriatrician, Sunderland Royal Hospital
Dr Fionnuala Johnston is a Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in movement disorders at Sunderland Royal Hospital.
Dr Ting Wai Wong, ST6 Registrar, Darlington Memorial Hospital
Specialist Trainee Registrar in Geriatric Medicine
Postural blood pressure self-assessment at home - Dr Jake Gibbon
Biographies
Dr Jake Gibbon, Academic Clinical Fellow, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Academic clinical fellow in Geriatrics working in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust. Interests in falls and syncope and orthostatic hypotension
Age and frailty are independently associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and increased care needs in survivors
Biographies
Dr Sarah Richardson, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer - Geriatric medicine, Newcastle Hospitals
ST4 Geriatric Medicine, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
Dr Rosanna Varden, ST4, Cumberland Infirmary
Dr Amy Gray, ST5, Sunderland Royal Hospital
Amy Gray and Rosie Varden are both Geriatric Registrars currently training in the North East.
Polypharmacy and Multimorbidity
Biographies
Dr Francis Kalu, Locum Consultant Physician, South Tyneside District Hospital
Working in a GIM/Endocrine ward, sharing the 30 bedded patient load , Dr Kalu sees the GIM and geriatrics patient intake. He also has on-call and post-take ward rounds in Emergency assessment unit.
Dr Kalu believes the bedside history taking and physical examination still tops the CT/MRI or at best will limit the tests to barest minimum. Heloves teaching in hisrounds and learning from patients and juniors too. Dr Kalu is always challenging his team for excellency in patients care, and to make use of every opportunity to engage in educational activities and research as the ward is a gold mile for education/research!
Dr Gabrielle Wood, FY2, South Tyneside District Hospital
FY2 doctor currently working in paediatric ED. Special interest in histopathology.
Dr Sinead McKenna Favier, FY2, South Tyneside District Hospital
FY2 Doctor currently working in General Surgery. Specialist interest in Urology.
The response of a specialist care home support team to the COVID-19 pandemic in Newcastle upon Tyne
Biographies
Dr Clare Patchett, Geriatric Registrar, LET HENE
Geriatric and GIM SpR
Catherine Smith, Community Nurse Practitioner, Newcastle upon Tyne
Matron for Specialist Care Home Support Team, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
I have worked as a nurse practitioner and have recently become Matron for Specialist Care Home Support Team in the community directorate of an NHS trust. This is a nursing team which works within a wider MDT to prevent avoidable hospital admission for care home residents through comprehensive geriatric assessment, proactive advanced care planning and providing a rapid response to acute episodes of illness. The service has a caseload of 2400 residents across 53 homes. At the start of the pandemic we were joined by our geriatrician colleagues to discuss emergency health care planning with our residents and their loved ones that was specific to COVID-19. During the pandemic, visiting restrictions meant that we had to adapt to telephone and virtual support as we were unable to deliver the planned care element of the service. Any face to face visits were for acutely unwell residents and often for end of life care. As the pandemic continued we could see the physical and functional decline of many of our residents - as a result of this (and the introduction of primary care networks) we have continued to work with the getiatrician team and undertaken joint visits in the care homes, so that these frail and often cognitively impaired patients do not have to attend hospital. We are further extending this service to deliver a weekly geriatrician MDT (starting April 2021) for the nursing team, GP's, pharmacists and geriatricians to review complex cases.