Facility Name
emergency medical care in vizag
The only 24-hour exclusive emergency and consultation-liaison psychiatry department in the city manned by qualified psychiatrists round the clock
- There is an increase in patients presenting to emergency departments with acute psychiatric crises.
- Although acute psychiatric crises qualify as medical emergencies, the general hospital emergency department might not be the best location of care for these cases.
- What is needed is a comprehensive psychiatric emergency program in the context and location of a stand-alone psychiatric hospital, as most of the general hospital emergency units don’t take the most acute and highly agitated or violent patients.
- The problem is further compounded when such a violent patient has a comorbid physical illness.
- Management of psychiatric emergencies including :
- Aggression
- Suicidality
- Drug withdrawal or intoxication.
- Medical emergencies presenting with behavioural symptoms.
- Confusion
- Seizures
- Stupor
- Panic attacks
- Acute behavioural disturbances
- Delirium
- Availability of observation facility at nominal charges in the emergency psychiatry department itself.
- Liaison with attached ICU with visiting specialists from all departments for diagnosis and management of behavioural emergencies due to underlying physical conditions.
- Management of mild to moderate medical comorbidities in patients with psychiatric problems.
- Liaison with 2 general hospitals for Management of severe medical comorbidities with staff from our hospital visiting these centres thereby enhancing continuity of care.
- Visits to various general hospitals to assess psychiatric emergencies and a need for shifting to our specialist psychiatric centre.
- Availability of a depot injection clinic for administration of long-acting injectable medications.
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