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.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Do not obtain screening laboratory tests in the medical clearance process of paediatric patients who require inpatient psychiatric admission unless clinically indicated. A 2023 Quality Improvement (QI) project involved the introduction of a medical clearance algorithm for children presenting with psychiatric emergencies.
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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.
Emergency Medicine Cases
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, yet they are frequently missed in the Emergency Department as they can be elusive. Eating disorders need to be thought of as both a psychiatric condition and medical condition to optimize the pick up rate and appropriate management.
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.
EM Ottawa
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Urine drug (or toxicologic) screens are a fairly standard tool used in addictions, psychiatry and the Emergency Department (ED), often employed to detect substance use in patients presenting with altered mental status, trauma, psychiatric or abnormal behaviour.
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.
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