Psychiatric Emergencies

[Problems of psychiatric emergencies].

Psychiatric Emergencies in Pregnant Women.

Psychiatric emergencies in pregnancy can be difficult to manage. The authors (both practicing psychiatrists and emergency clinicians) review the evaluation and treatment of common mental health diagnoses in pregnancy.

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...

Psychiatric emergencies (part II): psychiatric disorders coexisting with organic diseases.

BACKGROUND In this Part II psychiatric disorders coexisting with organic diseases are discussed. "Comorbidity phenomenon" defines the not univocal interrelation between medical illnesses and psychiatric disorders, each other negatively influencing morbidity and mortality. Most severe psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression, show increased prevalence of card...

Psychiatric emergencies (part I): psychiatric disorders causing organic symptoms.

Psychiatric emergencies are conditions that mostly destabilize the already frenetic activity of the Emergency Department. Sometimes the emergency is clearly referable to primitive psychiatric illness. Other times, psychiatric and organic symptoms can independently coexist (comorbidity), or develop together in different conditions of substance abuse, including alcohol and prescription drugs. Dif...