EMDocs

JUNE 16, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:57 — 19.2MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarding in the ED In episode 1 of this series, we discussed differentiating organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation in children. Why are we boarding?

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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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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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EMDocs

MAY 26, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:49 — 24.5MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Non-Pharmacologic Management In episode 1 of this series, we discussed differentiating organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation in children. Patients may be brought to hospital by police under restraint (e.g.

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Mind The Bleep

JUNE 18, 2023

It is a very common presentation or comorbidity to see in community services and general hospital. ICD-10 codes: F00-03 are the ICD codes for dementia and its subtypes F02. ICD-10 codes: F00-03 are the ICD codes for dementia and its subtypes F02. The green arrows represent insults causing a delirium e.g. infection.

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Maria Yang, MD

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He goes on to note: Sending people to a psychiatric institution is particularly practical because hospitalisation has no end and thus, if need be, people can be locked away forever, or as long as they continue to have views that are considered politically or socially dangerous, or remain inconvenient to the authorities. …

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EB Medicine

MAY 3, 2019

Jeff: As a quick survey of our audience before we begin, how many of you routinely encounter co-morbid psychiatric conditions in your ED patients, especially depression? Jeff: And how many of you struggle to admit or transfer patients for a formal psychiatric eval? Nachi: That would certainly be all of our listeners!

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EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

Nachi: Sometimes… Jeff: This month’s issue was authored by Mollie Williams, who is the EM residency program director at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. In fact, cannabis use has been documented for medical use dating as far back as 600 BC in West and Central Asia.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Thus, if there is documented sinus bradycardia, and no suspicion of high grade AV block, at the time of the syncope, this is very useful. Clinical predictors of cardiac syncope at initial evaluation in patients referred urgently to general hospital: the EGSYS score. Other studies 1) EGSYS score (full text link). Del Rosso A, et al.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Bubble Wrap Plus is a monthly paediatric Journal Club reading list from Professor Jaan Toelen (University Hospitals Leuven) and Dr Anke Raaijmakers (Sydney Children’s Hospital). Hemoglobin Threshold for Blood Transfusion in Young Children Hospitalized with Iron Deficiency Anemia. Can’t get enough of Bubble Wrap? 2023 Dec 1.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Below is an example of a protocol adapted from The Royal Bristol Childrens Hospital to wean IV opioids and benzodiazepines: Each child should be assessed before weaning plan initiation and when each reduction is anticipated. Georges hospital , London in pictorial format: What is the role of Alpha2-agonists in sedation, and how to wean them?

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Taming the SRU

JUNE 6, 2023

BROADSTOCK Suicidal Ideation & Behavior with Concomitant Substance-Use Difficult to distinguish suicidal ideation/behavior from primary decompensated psychiatric disease versus substance-induced in the ED Statement of Belief Aka pink slip, 72 hour hold, involuntary civil commitment, etc.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This month, my reporting revealed that since 2018, the policy at Boston Children’s Hospital has been to provide kids a single two-hour assessment appointment. In fact, many clinics require only a brief psychological assessment before gender dysphoric children are referred to endocrinology for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

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