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Annals of B Pod: Social EM Corner- Suicide Related Behaviors

Taming the SRU

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.

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Ep 106 Toxic Alcohols – Minding the Gaps

Emergency Medicine Cases

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.

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ToxCard: Second Generation Antipsychotic Overdose

EMDocs

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.

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ToxCard: Acute Organophosphate Toxicity

EMDocs

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.

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Grand Rounds Recap 9.25.2024

Taming the SRU

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.

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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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Grand Rounds Recap 4.5.23

Taming the SRU

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.