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