Prevention of suicide Depressed patients need more choices

Suicide in depressed patients: medico-legal issues.

[We need patients more obese].

We read with interest the work by Urfalıoğlu and colleagues about ultrasound-guided versus surgical transversus abdominis plane block in obese patients. The conclusion of this study is that ultrasound guided and surgical TAP blocks were safe and had similar efficacy in providing post-operative analgesia in obese pregnant women following cesarean section. We agree that TAP block, surgical or ult...

Suicide prevention in Spain: an uncovered clinical need.

Suicide constitutes one of the most important problems in global public health. That is why several studies have been published in the last 2 years among other considerations, in which a possible association is established between different economic crisis indicators and the varying suicide rates from countries of very different latitudes. There have been mixed results. The most consistent data...

Interest and need greatly outpace resources for youth suicide prevention.

Anhedonia, suicide ideation and dexamethasone nonsuppression in depressed patients.

In the search for a valid analysis of a number of operationalised symptoms common to depressive behaviour, a study was performed comprising 46 patients showing depressive symptoms, according to operationalised criteria and as part of which all agreed to undergo the following tests: (a) psychiatric: Present State Examination; (b) psychological: Hamilton Rating Scale, Montgomery-Asberg Rating Sca...