This session identifies the clinical features of acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and covers the initial assessment and management of patients with ABD in the ED.
This session identifies the clinical features of acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and covers the initial assessment and management of patients with ABD in the ED.
In this blog, we’ve collated all our infographics, and some pictures, around mental health in the ED. We hope that the pictures will spark your curiosity, and you’ll delve further into the original resource for further learning.
It’s Friday night, a 19-year-old male who alleges he’s been assaulted is shouting / being aggressive in the waiting area. The triage nurse asks you to discharge him.
A young lady presented with abdominal pain, lethargy, (Groin) bone pain, depression and headache.
A young man presents with auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions. Test your knowledge on assessment and management of a psychiatric patient.
A conducted energy device (CED) ‘taser’ was discharged into a patient’s shoulder. Before this patient is taken into police custody, you’ve been asked to assess them in your ED.
The Police have brought a patient to your ED that has had a controlled energy device discharged into their upper back. You are called to assess this patient.
How will you manage the absconding patient?
Managing challenging and violent behaviour is an integral part of the workload of an Emergency Department.
Managing challenging and violent behaviour is an integral part of the workload of an Emergency Department.
This month we discuss Guidelines in EM: Mental health | Ondansetron take home in paeds gastroenteritis | Diarrhea and rehydration
Approximately 10% of all admissions to the Emergency Department (ED) are related to patients having a mental health crisis. With the ever increasing numbers of patients requiring mental health input, it is important that we understand the law that underpins our treatment (RCEM, 2018)
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined by the World Health Organisation as consuming more than 40g/day of alcohol for males and 30mg/day of alcohol for females
Working in the emergency department, you are guaranteed to see and treat patients from all specialties of medicine and surgery. Most will prove to be interesting but also challenging at the same time.