ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2023

Last month’s article focused on ACEP’s efforts and resources to support EDs and patients with psychiatric emergencies. Emergency departments (EDs) focus on rapid initiation of medical treatment. However, when agitation is due to an underlying psychiatric disorder, SGAs are preferred. Ann Emerg Med.

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EMDocs

JUNE 9, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:51 — 21.8MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Safe prehospital transport of the agitated child In episode 1 of this series, we discussed differentiating organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation in children. In today’s episode, we’re taking our show on the road.

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SheMD

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Yes, I am a woman, yes I am a feminist, yes I am a physician, yes I am in academic leadership for a well-known emergency department… The yes’s are many, but what do I have to say that is so meaningful or useful that people would want to publish it? So the answer to the million dollar question: how to be happy as a woman in EM?

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EMDocs

JUNE 2, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:53 — 27.3MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Pharmacologic Management In episode 1 of this series, we discussed differentiating organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation in children. Now it is time to review pharmacologic management. mg/kg/dose PO; 0.2-0.3

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ALiEM

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Case A patient arrives via EMS from the bus station complaining of fever, vomiting, and back pain. Bupe Allergy Buprenorphine induction has been the mainstay of emergency department treatment of opioid use disorder for more than a decade [11, 12]. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. Journal of general internal medicine.

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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.

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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. Emerg Med Clin North Am. Emerg Med Australas. Do we Redirect?

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ACEP Now

JANUARY 14, 2024

Many common presentations to the emergency department (ED) are related to drug interactions that are commonly missed and largely preventable. 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.

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RebelEM

MARCH 9, 2023

However, evaluating and managing patients with acute alcohol intoxication in the emergency department can be challenging. It may be mistaken for acute intoxication, psychiatric illness, or other occult pathology. Unsuspected Critical Illness Among Emergency Department Patients Presenting for Acute Alcohol Intoxication.

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EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

This month, we are sticking in the abdomen for another round of evidence-based medicine, focusing on Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Bariatric Surgery. Which again reiterates why this is such an important topic for us as EM clinicians to be well-versed in.

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

One night I found myself on the other side of the stretcher, as a patient waiting for a psychiatric assessment in an emergency department (ED). I knew it would not be until morning before I was “medically cleared” for my psychiatric evaluation, and I wanted to let them know they could head home. Why are women leaving EM?:

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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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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

It is an antipsychotic drug used for a number of psychiatric conditions including schizophrenia. You can find a good review on this paper on REBEL EM. Population: Adults 18 years and older presenting to the emergency department with abdominal pain due to their known gastroparesis. AEM November 2017.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 11, 2025

A 16-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) with his mother with the chief complaint of intermittent abdominal pain and constipation for several weeks. 7 A more recent study surveyed emergency physicians knowledge and training and found that of 1.9 Parental blame is counter-therapeutic and should be avoided.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

in 2010 EM Clinics of North America (full text link) For an Exhaustive Review of Syncope and its full management outside the ED environment, go to the 2009 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines (full text pdf). The ROSE (Risk Stratification of syncope in the emergency department) Study.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

In November 2022, the American College of Emergency Physicians sent a letter to President Biden on behalf of 34 organizations, asking to convene stakeholders to identify solutions to address the emergency department (ED) boarding crisis.1 The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes.

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ACEP Now

APRIL 5, 2024

Wetli was referring to his and a colleague’s publication of a case report, in 1981, and a seven-case series in 1985 describing the novel “excited delirium syndrome” in individuals under the influence of cocaine, “a medical emergency but with a psychiatric presentation.”

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EMDocs

JUNE 7, 2023

She required further inpatient psychiatric care and was eventually discharged. Parenteral organophosphorus poisoning in a rural emergency department: a case report. She is speaking one word at a time and constantly coughing. Iran Red Crescent Med J 16: e5072, 2014. BMC Res Notes. 2013; 6:524. Published 2013 Dec 9.

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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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EMDocs

MARCH 6, 2025

If the dosage can be lowered safely, this can be done in the outpatient psychiatric setting, to monitor for development of any psychotic features. Psychiatric consultation should be considered. link] American Psychiatric Association. 2 The first intervention to consider is whether antipsychotics can be weaned.

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