Biomarkers in Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Journal: Biomarkers
Background Geriatric emergency medicine is challenged by diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty. In older people, acute illness often presents atypically against a background of multimorbidity, frailty, cognitive impairment, and polypharmacy. In the emergency setting, where time pressures and incomplete information are the norm, distinguishing acute pathology from chronic disease, estimating physiological reserve, an…