American Medical Compliance
MARCH 18, 2024
Some higher risk settings include psychiatric units, emergency rooms, geriatric units, and behavioral health units to name a few. Additionally, providing your staff with the resources and information to keep themselves safe will help reduce the risk of workplace violence in your medical facility.
ACEP Now
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
5 Hospitals commonly activate a “code” in response to agitated patients, alerting security personnel to the location of that patient. From the law enforcement perspective, hospital policies regarding behavioral codes were “vague” and the same patients are often seen multiple times with similar behavioral crises, he noted in an interview.
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ACEP Now
JULY 7, 2023
Last month’s article focused on ACEP’s efforts and resources to support EDs and patients with psychiatric emergencies. Mental health evaluation teams can rely on documentation and interviews to understand a patient’s initial agitation level. However, when agitation is due to an underlying psychiatric disorder, SGAs are preferred.
RebelEM
MARCH 9, 2023
It may be mistaken for acute intoxication, psychiatric illness, or other occult pathology. Consider a psychiatric consult (and labs needed for psychiatric admission) or check blood work if there is a concern for concomitant underlying medical pathology as a cause of hallucinations. Acta Psychiatr Scand.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
MARCH 19, 2024
This has coincided with a widespread shortage of specialist placements for children facing behavioural, psychiatric, and child protection challenges, leading to an over-reliance on the placement of these children in hospitals. Key messages Consider social determinants of health and document these in a child’s clinical notes.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2023
She had an uneventful ICU course and was extubated for ongoing care with the inpatient psychiatric service. Macroscopic T-Wave Alternans: A Red Flag for Code Blue. Teaching Points: 1. T wave alternans is characterized by variation in T-wave morphology in the setting of consistent pacemaker and QRS morphology. (1) J Am Coll Cardiol.
ACEP Now
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
billion for specialty-care rate increases, $500 million for hospital emergency-department reimbursement, at least $500 million for family planning and reproductive-health care, and $600 million for behavioral-health facilities, including some for new inpatient psychiatric beds. billion for primary-care rate increases, $1.15
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