A great turnout for Sep 2015 #GeriMedJC

The first half-hour of the live version of #GeriMedJC was facilitated by Amanda Gardhouse (@agardhouse), a Geriatric Medicine postgraduate trainee at the University of Toronto.  After conducting a focus group mid-way through out first year of #GeriMedJC, we learned that one of the barriers to faculty and trainee engagement on #GeriMedJC was due to a lack of familiarity with Twitter.  We gained 33 new followers since the last month, of which many were faculty in our division at the university.  Welcome tweeps!

During the second hour, this article was critically appraised:

Mossello E, Pieraccioli M, Nesti N, Bulgaresi M, Lorenzi C, Caleri V, Tonon E, Cavallini MC, Baroncini C, Di Bari M, Baldasseroni S, Cantini C, Biagini CA, Marchionni N, Ungar A.Effects of low blood pressure in cognitively impaired elderly patients treated with antihypertensive drugs. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Apr;175(4):578-85. 

Overall, the audience thought the conclusions may have been a bit of a stretch and the follow-up was on the short side.  Nevertheless, caution should be raised in the setting of low blood pressure.  View the entire tweet chat transcript here.  Thank you to all the participants for making this one of the biggest #GeriMedJC sessions!

We're grateful to Dr. Bernadette Keefe (@nxtstop1), social media in medicine guru, from North Carolina who storified this discussion (click here)!

We'll see you next time on #GeriMedJC (October 30, 2015 at 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT).