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Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD)

Mind The Bleep

ICD-10 codes: F00-03 are the ICD codes for dementia and its subtypes F02. Treatment Strategies Like with all psychiatric conditions always consider a biopsychosocial approach. – One stroke is prevented for every 37 patients with dementia who avoid 2-3 months of antipsychotic symptoms for their BPSD.

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Episode 28 - Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department: An Evidence-Based Approach

EB Medicine

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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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The best documented cormorbidity is sickle cell disease, although other pro-thrombotic conditions also put the child at risk. The previously well child now decompensated: undiagnosed thrombophilia Asymptomatic patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the cause of some cases of cryptogenic vascular disease, such as stroke and MI. Pongratz G et al.

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Grand Rounds Recap 5.3.23

Taming the SRU

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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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

In fact, cannabis use has been documented for medical use dating as far back as 600 BC in West and Central Asia. First up is the link between cannabis use and stroke or TIA. times higher risk of stroke or TIA. times higher risk of stroke or TIA. Cannabis users who smoked at least once weekly had a 3.3

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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. Syncope and cause of death were identified by codes from the International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision. to 1.45) for fatal or nonfatal stroke. g/dL —Hypotension (obviously!)