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Bubble Wrap PLUS – July ’23

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Original clinical studies Distribution and pattern of hand fractures in children and adolescents. Prenatal opioid exposure and well-child care in the first 2 years of life: population-based cohort study. Ultrasonography or Radiography for Suspected Pediatric Distal Forearm Fractures. McClellan JM, et al. JAMA Pediatr.

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Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD)

Mind The Bleep

Treatment Strategies Like with all psychiatric conditions always consider a biopsychosocial approach. In a general hospital there are the dementia and delirium team, as well as Liaison Psychiatry who you can refer to. The green arrows represent insults causing a delirium e.g. infection. What can I use in an emergency?

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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Don't Forget the Bubbles

We know that fractures are the precipitating event in about 5–14% of cases and surgical procedures in 10–15%. in 2018, 16% of patients diagnosed with CRPS had comorbid depression, and two-thirds had at least one psychiatric diagnosis, significantly higher than in the general population. More recently, Mesaroli et al. Audouin-Pajot C.,

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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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Tranq dope (fentanyl-xylazine combination): A new horizon in opioid withdrawal treatment

ALiEM

The Wounds Common among patients who use xylazine, the necrotic and exudative wounds are still not fully understood [5-8], but are likely due in part to direct cytotoxic effects of the drug and its impurities, as well as possible nutritional deficiencies common in those with dependence. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023;29(6):470-476.