Brazilian Psychiatric Association consensus for the management of psychiatric emergencies in pregnancy and postpartum period

Recognition and Management of Psychiatric Emergencies

The recognition of psychiatric emergencies would seem to be easy. This is certainly true if one thinks of the intoxicated alcoholic who is threatening to kill himself or someone else, or the patient on a surgical ward who reports that persecutors are out to get him. However, we may be dealing with just as much of a psychiatric emergency when confronted by the little old lady who does not wish t...

Implications of Psychiatric Disorders during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period - A Population-based Study

Background: Depressive and anxiety disorders are common health problems, affecting women at least twice as often as men. Although some studies have been made on pregnant women or, especially, in the postpartum period, most of these studies have been performed on small samples, mainly specific risk groups such as teenage mothers, women of low socioeconomic status and certain ethnic groups. Also,...

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Assessment of Functioning of Non-psychiatric Physicians in the Management of Psychiatric Emergencies

The literature from India is conspicuous by paucity of well-planned studies on psychiatric emergencies. Trivedi and Gupta (1982) in a retrospective study found that 2.9 % of the total patients coming to emergency room of a general hospital were diagnosed to be having psychiatric illness. In a prospective study by Kelkar et al (1982) the figure was 5.4%. However, both of these studies have not a...

Identifying and managing psychiatric emergencies.

Delirium is a highly prevalent and complex neuropsychiatric disorder marked by attentional dysfunction, disturbances in multiple cognitive domains, and changes in motor behavior, perception, sleep, and thought process. Delirium results from diverse toxic, metabolic, infectious, and structural etiologies and is associated with a number of adverse outcomes. Delirium pathophysiology involves pertu...