Articles: emergency-services.
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In order to illustrate our current pattern of use, 50 patients were reviewed who were examined by computerized tomography (CT) of the head during admission through the Accident and Emergency (A & E) Department. Fourteen (28 per cent) had no history of head injury but exhibited diminished conscious level, epilepsy, headache, or hemiplegia. The 36 cases of head injury were analysed in order to see whether they met certain criteria proposed by other authors, and to suggest the advantage to be gained when CT was available in a district general hospital (with teaching status).
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Reported is a case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis diagnosed in the emergency department. The patient, a previously healthy teenager, developed Naegleria meningoencephalitis after swimming in a freshwater public pool. The Naegleria caused acute fulminating infection culminating in the death of the patient 36 hours after admission. Results of a spinal tap, together with the history of swimming in warm fresh water, led to the emergency department diagnosis.
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Wien Klin Wochenschr Suppl · Jan 1983
[Crisis intervention technics and organization of crisis intervention. A unit for emergency psychiatry and crisis intervention-concept, structure and initial results].
Using the psychiatric admission unit of the Max-Planck- Institute for Psychiatry as an example, the principles of inpatient treatment of psychiatric emergency patients respectively inpatient crisis intervention are presented. It can be demonstrated, that small units with short treatment duration and a multidisciplinary team with psycho-therapeutic orientation are most useful. ⋯ A regular supervision is necessary. Most of the patients are referred after the completion of the inpatient stay for further treatment on an in- or outpatient basis.