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The characteristics of geriatric patients managed within the resuscitation unit of a district-level emergency centre in Cape Town

INTRODUCTION: The world's population is aging and this trend is also seen in South Africa. This increase will invariably affect acute care services. The geriatric population attending emergency centres have not been described in the South African setting. The objective was to describe the chara...

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Autores principales:	Simakoloyi, Natalie, Erasmus, Elaine, van Hoving, Daniël Jacobus
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2022
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8761600/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35070652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2021.11.005

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