Acute Psychiatry
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
Serotonin Syndrome. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Lithium toxicity.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Assess and manage violence/agitation/homicidality
- Assess and manage other psychiatric emergencies/crises and acute presentations: toxidromes and withdrawal; overdoses: (e.g. TCA, acetaminophen); severe drug reactions: NMS, sertonin syndrome, dystonia; medical conditions with possible psychiatric presentation (e.g. catatonia, delirium)
- Assess and manage acute psychosis.
- Recommend medication management, monitoring and counselling, including: Classes of psychiatric medications and their indications. Medication counselling: indications, choice, side effects, etc. Pre-medication work-up. Medication monitoring and work-up. Side effects (blood tests and physical e.g. AIMS). Metabolic syndromes and monitoring. Special populations (pediatric, geriatric, pregnancy). Acute syndromes/reactions (NMS, dystonia, serotonin syndrome, toxicity).
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Anxiety
Fever and Hyperthermia
Psychosis
Substance Use or Addictive Disorders
Suicidal Behavior
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
