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Geriatric Emergency Protocol Book: A Comprehensive Guide is a practical, protocol-driven guide to the emergency care of older adults, written for the realities of Indian emergency departments and created jointly by the Indian Academy of Geriatrics and the Society of Acute Care, Trauma and Emergency Medicine.
Older patients present atypically, deteriorate silently, and rarely fit adult algorithms designed for the young — the infarct that never announces itself, the sepsis hiding behind a normal temperature, the soft abdomen concealing a catastrophe. Every chapter is kept stepwise and bedside-ready, written for the resident at 3 am as much as for the consultant, and set against Indian conditions: late presentation, families as both caregivers and decision-makers, uneven prehospital care, and the distance between a metro tertiary centre and a district hospital.
Coverage runs from frailty screening, delirium recognition and medication review through the emergencies themselves — falls, trauma and orthogeriatrics, cardiovascular, respiratory, infectious, neurological, psychiatric, oncologic, metabolic and environmental — and on to toxicology, nutritional deficiency and anaemia, discharge planning and care transitions, nonspecific complaints and missed diagnoses, and end-of-life decisions.
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