Psychiatric Related Topics 
ACEP Now
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The emergency department (ED) was frequently overwhelmed by suicidal adolescents who needed inpatient psychiatric treatment but couldn’t be admitted, because the hospital had no free beds. 1 The problem of psychiatric boarding has gotten worse in the years since it began. She began to think, there had to be a better way. Pediatrics.
Pediatric EM Morsels
JULY 26, 2024
It is even more challenging when the initial symptoms seem to align with what we perceive as psychiatric concerns. Often initially misdiagnosed as a psychiatric illness. An irritated brain can lead to such a wide array of symptoms. It is commonly missed during the first few ED visits.
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PEMBlog
MAY 17, 2023
Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Psychiatric manifestations revealing inborn errors of metabolism in adolescents and adults. Psychiatric emergencies. Pediatrics 2021; 147.
Sensible Medicine
JUNE 10, 2024
I raise the issue because the prominent journal JAMA-Psychiatry published a paper purporting to show that placebos have great effects in many psychiatric conditions. The authors reported that most psychiatric disorders, especially depression and generalized anxiety disorder, had substantial placebo effects. This is wrong.
Pediatric EM Morsels
MARCH 15, 2024
Striano, 2017 ] Precocious puberty Psychiatric disorders Cognitive difficulties (ex, autism spectrum disorders) May seem simple but become complicated. Can even become status gelasticus. Bacus, 2023 ] Cases as young as 4 months have been described.
Emergency Live
JULY 3, 2023
Schizophrenia comes from the Greek and literally means “separate mind”: those affected struggle to distinguish reality from imagination It is a psychiatric disorder that seriously compromises self-perception. In addition to negatively affecting social relationships and the performance of normal daily activities.
Emergency Live
JUNE 20, 2023
Compulsive Excision Disorder (DEC), also called 'Skin Picking' and 'dermatillomania', is a clinical condition characterised by constant picking at the skin causing skin lesions, and repeated attempts to curb this behaviour, according to the 2013 APA (American Psychiatric Association) guidelines The post Compulsive Excision Disorder (DEC): Skin Picking, (..)
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