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W K Summers

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PubMed1979

Psychiatric illness in a general urban emergency room: daytime versus nighttime population.

Two hundred adults presenting to the emergency room of an urban general hospital were interviewed by a standardized technique to evaluate the existence of a current or previous psychiatric illness. Half of the subjects presented between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (daytime group), and 100 presented between 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. (nighttime group). In the nighttime population 65% were judged to have current or past psychiatric illnesses. In the daytime population only 36% had current or past psychiatric illnesses. The differences between the 2 populations was highly significant. Fewer than 10% of the 200 patients presented with neuropsychiatric symptoms in their chief complaints.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

The natural history of acute organic mental syndrome after bilateral electroconvulsive therapy.

Thirty-one patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were followed prospectively for the development of acute organic mental syndrome (AOMS); 15 patients (48.4%) developed AOMS during ECT. For these 15 patients, the average number of ECTs before development of AOMS was 5.5 with average duration of AOMS being 20.1 days. Comparison of these 15 patients to the 16 patients who did not develop AOMS for diagnoses, demographic data, pre-ECT laboratory data, and medications, differed only in exposure to psychoactive medications and prior presence of major medical illness.

Acute Disease↗
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Psychiatric sequelae to cardiotomy.

Eight of twenty-six subjects undergoing cardiotomy had a diagnosable psychiatric syndrome after surgery. No difference between psychiatric and non-psychiatric cases was noted with respect to demographic data, pre-operative medical psychiatric history, anesthesia time, serial laboratory studies, or environment. Post-operative psychiatric cases, however, did have significantly higher exposure to psychoactive drugs during the pre- and post-operative period.

Cardiac Surgical Procedures↗