It is Monday morning 09.00hrs and you are checking your email inbox. You have received the following email from the StR who has just finished weekend nights.
It is Monday morning 09.00hrs and you are checking your email inbox. You have received the following email from the StR who has just finished weekend nights.
A 21-year-old student presents to ED distressed and agitated, pacing up and down. He looks terrified and is acutely suicidal.
How will you manage your absconding patient with suicidal intent who has gone ‘absent without leave’?
An adolescent male presents with abdominal pain, vomiting and bradyarrhythmia after ingesting foxglove plant leaves with an intention to harm himself.
How will you manage the absconding patient?
A 51-year-old who presents profoundly unconscious.
How will you manage the absconding patient?
Here are some tips on the common mental health presentations to the emergency department
Patients with mental health problems often present to the Emergency Department (ED). They will commonly be assessed and then treated, initially, by junior doctors.