A patient presenting following intentional ingestion of yew tree leaves.
A patient presenting following intentional ingestion of yew tree leaves.
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.
This module focuses on the assessment and initial management of psychiatric patients in the ED.
This module focuses on the assessment and initial management of psychiatric patients in the emergency department.
A 23-year-old male with autism, ADHD and prior self-harm presents with suicidal hallucinations. Initially cooperative, he later becomes agitated and violent, requiring urgent intervention for safety despite de-escalation attempts.
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 patient with a prior diagnosis of EUPD is brought to the ED by a friend because he has cut his arm with a Stanley Knife.
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.
A 13-year-old female collapses whilst running. How will you assess and manage this?
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.
This is the fifth in a series of Emergency Casebooks from the virtual hospital CFN General, with key learning points for staff working in an Emergency Department