Emergency Live

JUNE 14, 2023

Disorders such as pathological gambling, pyromania, kleptomania, and intermittent explosive disorder have only been diagnosed with DSM III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) The post Impulse control disorders: what they are, how to treat them appeared first on Emergency Live.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Did you know that screening laboratory tests in the medical clearance process of pediatric patients who require inpatient psychiatric admission are not recommended unless clinically indicated?

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Pediatric EM Morsels

MARCH 15, 2024

Striano, 2017 ] Precocious puberty Psychiatric disorders Cognitive difficulties (ex, autism spectrum disorders) May seem simple but become complicated. Can even become status gelasticus. Bacus, 2023 ] Cases as young as 4 months have been described.

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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.

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 19, 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.

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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.

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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. However, when agitation is due to an underlying psychiatric disorder, SGAs are preferred. Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Diagnosis and Management of the Adult Psychiatric Patient in the Emergency Department.

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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.

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 19, 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.

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Maria Yang, MD

JUNE 4, 2023

I’ll say more about compulsory mental health care (also called involuntary psychiatric treatment) and involuntary medications in a separate post. So what does this anecdote have to do with involuntary psychiatric treatment? To be clear: I have provided involuntary psychiatric treatment. thanks for spending decades with me!)

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Sandra had been petitioned and certified for involuntary psychiatric admission when she arrived, which basically means that, if she wants to leave, we can keep her for about a week for emergency stabilization, at which point we can either go to court, or release her. [1] “Nothing is working, and she’s really sick.”

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Maria Yang, MD

APRIL 8, 2024

Contrast this Transdomain Model of Health with this recent Psychiatric News article, Lifestyle Psychiatry Emphasizes Behaviors Supporting Mental Health. The authors define “lifestyle psychiatry” as seeking to cultivate well-being and support individuals in preventing and managing psychiatric disorders and optimizing their brain health.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Do not obtain screening laboratory tests in the medical clearance process of paediatric patients who require inpatient psychiatric admission unless clinically indicated. A 2023 Quality Improvement (QI) project involved the introduction of a medical clearance algorithm for children presenting with psychiatric emergencies.

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 19, 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.

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Emergency Medicine News

MAY 8, 2023

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SheMD

APRIL 20, 2023

We specialize in psychiatric illness and medications before, during and after pregnancy. Psychiatric illness and pregnancy often go hand in hand. When psychiatric illness is present during the perinatal period, women can experience profound anhedonia and really miss out on a lot of the joy surrounding pregnancy and postpartum.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Do not obtain screening laboratory tests in the medical clearance process of pediatric patients who require inpatient psychiatric admission unless clinically indicated. Do not obtain radiographs in children with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first-time wheezing.

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SheMD

MAY 21, 2023

Practice your Psychiatric Interview: The psychiatric interview is a unique component of this rotation and getting the hang of it takes skill and patience. As a student, residents and attendings really want to see you take ownership of your patients and advocate for them!

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ACEP Now

JANUARY 14, 2024

Patients with psychiatric illness and renal disease should give us pause not only for unexplained presentations but also when ordering and prescribing medications for these patients in the ED. Predicting the risk of drug-drug interactions in psychiatric hospitals: a retrospective longitudinal pharmaco-vigilance study. Acad Emerg Med.

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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.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 19, 2019

Civil Monetary Penalties Resulting from Violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Involving Psychiatric Emergencies, 2002 to 2018. Civil Monetary Penalties Resulting from Violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Involving Psychiatric Emergencies, 2002 to 2018.

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ER Nurses

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At worst we're talking about psychiatric patients who sit in the ER and pose a physical threat to nurses. How many of you care for patients in the ER who shouldn't really be there? At best it is a drain on resources and impacts overall healthcare for those who really need it.

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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.

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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.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It’s important to work with a healthcare provider or a mental health professional to develop a treatment plan that meets your individual needs and medical situation.

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Maria Yang, MD

MAY 14, 2023

Of all the writing I’ve read about Jordan Neely, the man experiencing homelessness and psychiatric symptoms in NYC who died when another subway passenger restrained him (via chokehold), this piece by John McWhorter resonates the most with me. Fun photos in the article. A Killing on the F Train.

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Emergency Medicine Cases

JANUARY 30, 2018

Alcohol is everywhere, and inevitably inebriated people show up at your ED with a myriad of medical and psychiatric problems. One, after an intentional suicide attempt where they tell you exactly what they took; two, when they come in agitated and won’t give you a history and the three, the inebriated patient found down.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 3, 2023

ACEP helped inform and develop this legislation, which establishes a grant program to help enable emergency departments to improve coordination of care for patients experiencing acute psychiatric episodes as part of broader efforts to reduce the impact of the ongoing emergency department (ED) boarding crisis.

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Taming the SRU

JANUARY 12, 2024

r4 case follow up - r1 clinical knowledge: interstitial lung disease - halo - pediatric simulation - pediatric small groups r4 case follow up WITH dr. yates Psychiatric emergency department visits are on the rise in the United States, with roughly 15-19% of all ED visits associated with mental health diagnoses Roughly twenty percent of patients presenting (..)

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 29, 2023

You desire a psychiatric consult and learn that you don’t have in-person consult availability at this facility, but instead use telehealth services. TMH was significantly associated with increased ED/UCC length of stay and decreased odds of placing an involuntary psychiatric hold.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Methods This cross-sectional study included parents of children <18 years old presenting to a paediatric ED in Orange County, California, USA, for a non-psychiatric complaint between 20 January 2021 and 26 March 2021. Parents were, on average, 34.76±9.10 years old, 87.5% were mothers, 59.2%

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Emergency Medicine Cases

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

There is pathology lurking beneath - psychiatric, medical, traumatic and toxicological diagnoses driving these patients and we just won’t know which until we can safely calm them down. These are high risk patients and they are high risk to you and your ED staff.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million New Zealanders, researchers discovered correlations between these illnesses and other psychiatric disorders as well as dementias of all kinds, including Alzheimer’s. After three decades of examining the medical records of 1.7

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Maria Yang, MD

MARCH 18, 2024

The history of psychiatry holds these two goals in tension, too: On one end are the state psychiatric hospitals (also called asylums) where some people with severe symptoms (or not) were held (warehoused?) Are these two goals mutually exclusive? I don’t think so, though I want to noodle on this more.

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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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EMergucate

MAY 17, 2016

– Aggressive / Agitated Patient – Eating Disorders – Psychiatric Assessment – Psychiatric Management Overview – Self-Harm / Suicidal – … Continue reading →

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Led by psychiatric-trained nurses, teams responding to behavioral codes used a variety of de-escalation methods including non-confrontational communication, moving the patient to a less stimulating environment, and adjusting medications as necessary. Community Ment Health J. 2021;(7):1278-1287. Choi KR, Omery AK, Watkins AM. J Nurs Admin.

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