We are delighted to announce the appointments of Dr Barry Evans and Dr Santiago Castejón Hernández as the new Chairs of the EuGMS Urgent Care Section.

Barry brings a strong background in clinical leadership including delivering the British Geriatrics Society leadership program for senior registrars and currently serves at a Divisional Medical Director at UHDB in the East Midlands, UK. Santiago brings many years experience collaborating with our Taskforce in education, quality, and research track activities. They’re looking to work collaboratively to set the direction of the SIG and strengthen our bond with ETGEM.

Congratulations on your appointments!

This session will focus on nerve blocks for individuals with hip fracture, with discussion centered on two recent studies examining ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in the emergency department:

• Lee JS, Chenkin J, Simard R, et al. Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia by Emergency Physicians for Hip Fractures and Delirium: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open. 2025;8(12):e2549337. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.49337.
• Vijayan B, Ayyan M, Palaniappan P, et al. Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided PENG Block for Acute Pain Relief in Adult Hip Fracture Patients: A Double-Blind Randomized Trial. Academic Emergency Medicine. doi:10.1111/acem.70206.

In addition to article discussion, we will have a presentation from Emergency Medicine ultrasound faculty reviewing practical considerations for ultrasound-guided nerve blocks for hip fractures.

Date: Thursday, 05 March 2026
Time: 1100-1230 EST / 1600-1730 GMT / 1700-1830 CET
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The project to define minimum competencies for European paramedic education in geriatric emergency medicine has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-026-01550-3

56 ETGEM members from 27 countries participated in this three year Delphi process. Many congratulations to the project leads, Dr Jan-Niklas Krohn and Prof Katrin Singler!

Our friends at the Geriatric ED Collaborative (GEDC) have just published their comprehensive GeriEM curriculum, aimed at resident-level clinicians learning about the care of older people.

There are 17 online modules on topics including delirium, chest pain, falls, trauma, and end of life care.

Registration is required. The curriculum is free and open to all.

https://www.gedcollaborative.com/resource/atypical-presentations/pathways-to-practice/

Each year, the GeriEM section dedicates several months to preparing its proposals for symposia and lectures for the EUSEM Congress. At this year’s meeting, more than 3,600 participants from 76 countries attended, and we were delighted to see our strongest engagement yet with the GeriEM programme streams.

All scientific programme proposals must be submitted through EUSEM’s various sections; there is no external open call. As we begin shaping our submission for the 2026 Congress, we warmly invite members to volunteer and propose topics or themes they believe would enrich the programme. Your insights and creativity are essential in ensuring that GeriEM remains visible and impactful within the wider EM community.

Our proposals are reviewed competitively, and in most years around half are accepted. While we cannot offer guarantees, we are committed to putting forward an ambitious programme that reflects the breadth of our membership. We look forward to receiving your suggestions before we finalise our section’s submission in early January 2026.

The EUSEM section of our European Taskforce on GeriEM is going from strength to strength! We enjoyed a well attended meeting in Vienna during the EUSEM 2025 Congress and celebrated this year’s achievements including:

• Completion of two successful pre-courses during the conference and onwards dissemination of our GeriEM Bootcamp in four continents
• Participation in our Palliative Care in the ED e-course reaching 1300 registrants
• Celebration of the 2023 FEED Study being awarded best European Geriatric Medicine paper
• Contributions by the Taskforce to recent guideline documents by the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine and the US Geri-ED programme

Two highly successful GeriEM pre-courses took place in Vienna at the EUSEM 2025 Congress:

• Train-the-Trainer – 15 participants completed the full day orientation to deliver the educational programme in their own settings
• GeriEM Bootcamp – 24 participants completed our half day course

The SIG enjoyed a very well attended meeting in Reykjavik, chaired by Dr Steve Lim. We discussed presentations by:

• Dr Liz Moloney on the Frailty Trigger Score
• Dr Barry Evans on frailty SDEC services
• Dr Rasmus Strandmark on traumatic brain injury investigation

ETGEM are pleased to share a new paper, led by Dr Jacinta Lucke. Here we reflect on experiences conducting the 2023 Frailty in European Emergency Departments study. We advocate for evolution of research approaches and standards, to improve and broaden representation of older people living with frailty in high quality GeriEM studies.

Promoting uniform data reporting in research on older individuals living with frailty in the emergency department: the Utstein approach. European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Eur J Emerg Med. https://doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001275

We are honoured to announce that our Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED) study by the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine has been awarded ‘Best European Geriatric Medicine Paper 2024’ by the journal.

The study recruited 3479 older people attending 62 emergency departments over a single twenty-four-hour period, and identified the prevalence of frailty to be 40%: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-023-00926-3

Congratulations to all involved!