This study highlighted that anticholinergic and sedative medications to avoid in older people are still frequently prescribed despite the development and regular updating of potentially inappropriate medication criteria agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

With frailty present in 45% of heart failure patients and this group probably being the most challenging. This should absolutely be accounted for in guidelines.

Excellent stuff from @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social and Henry Woodford. The tables are super helpful to assess where the evidence is (or isn’t). Again- we need to think differently when prescribing for older people with frailty. Personalised prescribing. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Want to learn more about managing patients with frailty on the acute take? Join me on Thursday giving a SAM webinar. 2 CPD points. Free for @acutemedicine.bsky.social members. £15 if not www.eventsforce.net/eventage/fro...

One off doses of antihypertensives for asymptomatic hypertension is associated with increased risk of AKI. Similarly randomly throwing darts in the air for no reason is associated with increased risk of ADITH.* Will this madness never end? *A dart in the head jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is great! So happy to see our Polypharmacy masterclass series helping shape clinicians of the future. 😊

Should the management of people with frailty and heart failure deviate from the guidelines? @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Chris Whitty highlights that geriatricians can’t prevent frailty. A systematic, concerted public health and policy effort is required #bgsconf

A speaker at #bgsconf just mentioned “a local geriatrician” and @sparklystar55.bsky.social and I immediately thought, “for local people” - sorry not sorry

Una Clancy at #BGSConf discussing the wide spectrum of clinical consequences of small vessel disease - delirium, stroke, falls, apathy. Microinfarcts underdiagnosed as a cause for acute deterioration? @gerisoc.bsky.social

Could small vessel disease contribute to many presentations in older people with frailty? #BGSconf www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This study was discussed at #BGSconf yesterday www.bmj.com/content/384/...

Are we doing person-centred meditation reviews?

Evidence that less can be more when it comes to drug treatment. #MedSky 🧪

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