Psychiatry related information on Emergency Services, Psychiatric

• Ziprasidone in the acute treatment of borderline personality disorder in psychiatric emergency services [1].
• Nineteen patients seen at a psychiatric emergency service with amphetamine- or cocaine-induced psychotic disorder were assessed with structured interviews, chart review, and blood and urine testing [2].

High impact information on Emergency Services, Psychiatric

• METHOD: Twenty-eight acutely psychotic patients with schizophrenia who were admitted to an emergency psychiatric service were randomly assigned to treatment with either haloperidol and alprazolam or haloperidol with placebo under double-blind conditions [3].
• BACKGROUND: Black individuals in the UK have higher rates of contact with psychiatric emergency services than their White counterparts [4].
• Intramuscular ziprasidone is well tolerated and has gained widespread use in psychiatric emergency services since its introduction in 2002 [5].
• One-hundred and four consecutive patients received by the psychiatric emergency service of Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital (Paris, France) were assessed [6].
• Hospitalization of patients with cocaine and amphetamine use disorders from a psychiatric emergency service [7].

Chemical compound and disease context of Emergency Services, Psychiatric

• BACKGROUND: The newer atypical antipsychotics have gained prominence as first-line oral agents to treat severe agitation, but their use in the psychiatric emergency service (PES) setting has been limited because of the unavailability of parenteral formulations [8].
• The majority of the consumer panel reported adverse experiences with general hospital emergency rooms and, in fact, called for the development of specialized psychiatric emergency services such as those recommended in the Expert Consensus Guidelines [9].

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