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The Psychiatrist’s View of the Collaboration with Non-psychiatricWorkplaces


Authors: T. Tošnerová
Authors‘ workplace: Psychiatrická ambulance Fakultní nemocnice Královské Vinohrady, Praha Ústav lékařské etiky 3. LF UK, Praha
Published in: Čes. a slov. Psychiat., , 2004, No. 8, pp. 500-504.
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Overview

The article covers various forms of agitation and delirium that a psychiatrist must deal with ina non-psychiatric workplace. They result from the increase of the population mean age both in thehospitals as well as in the social care institutions and of the mental diseases of the elder age withinthe co morbidity. It explains the role of the consultation psychiatry and the role of the psychosomaticmedicine. It deals with the historical point of view and forensic standpoints of the actions underwhich the agitation and delirium were treated in our conditions and in some EU countries. In thinksof the dignity of ill person – mainly the elder one – whether a medicalisation of the problem is themost suitable solution and what the best approach toward this problem would be.

Key words:
agitation, delirium, non-psychiatric workplace, institutions of social care, psychosomaticmedicine.

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Addictology Paediatric psychiatry Psychiatry
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