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[SY-87-01]Psychiatric emergencies within a General Hospital: a Western Mexico 8-years experience
*Sergio Armando Covarrubias-Castillo1,2, Francisco José Barbosa-Camacho2 (1.University of Guadalajara; Universitary Center of Health Sciences(Mexico), 2.Hospital Civil de Guadalajara "Fray Antonio Alcalde"(Mexico))
Keywords:
psychiatric emergencies,emergency department,crisis intervention,pandemics and psychiatry
Clinical care for individuals living with a mental disorder is, by definition, fraught with significant challenges and requires important clinical skills. Assessing this patient group within an emergency department in a general hospital presents additional challenges, increasing its clinical, pharmacological, and therapeutic complexity. It is also necessary to rule out that psychiatric symptoms are not due to an underlying non-psychiatric medical condition.
At the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde, the largest public general hospital in Western Mexico and one of the largest in the country, such evaluations are conducted daily. This presentation aims to share the experience (both clinical, interdisciplinary, and with updated statistics) within the Department of Psychiatry when assessing psychiatric emergencies in the context of a general hospital during the last 8 years (pre-, trans- and post- pandemics).
At the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde, the largest public general hospital in Western Mexico and one of the largest in the country, such evaluations are conducted daily. This presentation aims to share the experience (both clinical, interdisciplinary, and with updated statistics) within the Department of Psychiatry when assessing psychiatric emergencies in the context of a general hospital during the last 8 years (pre-, trans- and post- pandemics).