Psychiatric Emergencies

Psychiatric Complaints in the ED — What to Keep in Mind

Author: Victoria Weston, MD AAEM/RSA President Originally Published: Common Sense, September/October 2015 A familiar scene in many emergency departments: you are on a busy overnight shift. You have just finished caring for a trauma patient and your part of the ED is filled with high-acuity patients. You see that a new “crisis” patient has been […]
Management of Suicide Attempts in the Emergency Department

Photo Credit: Pixabay Author: Felix Matos Padilla, MSVMedical StudentUniversidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) School of Medicine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Suicide is by far the most common cause of premature death among patients with major mood and psychotic disorders.[1] Attempted suicide is defined as a nonfatal self-inflicted destructive act with the explicit or […]

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