Taming the SRU

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The patient was notably uninsured due to losing her job six months ago, which prevented her from accessing psychiatric care during that time frame. Mood disorders, such as depression, are the most common psychiatric comorbidity, followed by anxiety disorders and schizophrenia.[10] Despite supplemental oxygen, she remained hypoxic.

EMS 95

EMS Psychiatric Emergency Department Poisoning 95

Emergency Medicine Cases

JANUARY 30, 2018

We see patients with toxic alcohol poisoning most commonly in three clinical scenarios. Alcohol is everywhere, and inevitably inebriated people show up at your ED with a myriad of medical and psychiatric problems. And that isn’t so easy - especially when it comes to toxic alcohols.

Psychiatric 52

Psychiatric Poisoning EMS 52

EMDocs

JUNE 7, 2023

2,7 Organophosphate poisonings in agriculturally-centered communities are of public health concern in developing countries. Millions are poisoned, and hundreds of thousands die each year worldwide. Millions are poisoned, and hundreds of thousands die each year worldwide. 7 May lead to respiratory failure. C, Organophosphate; 2.

Poisoning 83

Poisoning Airway Management Seizures PPE 83

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

of exposures reported to poison control centers in 2021 were related to antipsychotics or sedative-hypnotics with the majority of those exposures occurring in patients 20 years of age or older. 1,6 Agitation, delirium, psychosis, and hallucinations can occur and may be incorrectly attributed to concurrent psychiatric illness.

Poisoning 90

Poisoning EKG/ECG Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Seizures 90

Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, patients receiving ketamine at higher doses are at increased risk of airway compromise requiring intubation r3 taming the sru WITH dr. rodriguez Up to 17% of third-degree AV block is secondary to ischemia or an MI. C above historical average.

Dislocations 73

Dislocations Fractures Poisoning Academics 73

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!

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Psychiatric Documentation/Coding Outcomes 40

Taming the SRU

APRIL 13, 2023

Vaishnav Hyperthermia: abnormally high body temperature due to thermoregulatory failure Severe hyperthermia: temp greater than 40.5C EtOH, amphetamines, or cocaine) Prescription drugs (i.e.

Hyperthermia / Hypothermia 52

Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Poisoning EKG/ECG Seizures 52