[The elderly with a psychiatric prognosis in the emergency room]

Barbara Villoing; Emmanuel Leger; Vincent Camus; Philippe Le Conte; Anthony Chauvin

doi:10.1016/j.spsy.2021.06.012

[The elderly with a psychiatric prognosis in the emergency room]

Soins Psychiatr. 2021 Sep-Oct;42(336):32-34. doi: 10.1016/j.spsy.2021.06.012. Epub 2021 Jul 5.

[Article in French]

Authors

Barbara Villoing¹, Emmanuel Leger², Vincent Camus³, Philippe Le Conte⁴, Anthony Chauvin⁵

Affiliations

¹ Structure des urgences, Centre-Université de Paris, hôpital Cochin, 27 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France. Electronic address: barbara.villoing@aphp.fr.
² Groupe hospitalo-universitaire Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris psychiatrie et neurosciences, 1 rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris, France.
³ Clinique psychiatrique universitaire, centre hospitalier régional universitaire, 12 rue du Coq, 37540 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France.
⁴ Structure des urgences, centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes, 1 place Alexis-Ricordeau, 44093 Nantes cedex, France; Faculté de médecine, université de Nantes, 1 rue Gaston-Veil, 44000 Nantes, France.
⁵ Structure des urgences, centre hospitalier universitaire Lariboisière, 2 rue Ambroise-Paré, 75010 Paris, France.

PMID: 34763764
DOI: 10.1016/j.spsy.2021.06.012

Abstract

In the emergency department, the diagnosis of an acute psychiatric condition in an elderly patient should only be made after rigorous clinical and paraclinical examinations to rule out any somatic pathology. In addition, the management and treatment of acute agitation must be adapted.

Keywords: acute agitation; agitation aiguë; care; emergency; geriatrics; gériatrie; psychiatrie; psychiatry; soin; urgence.

MeSH terms

Aged
Anxiety
Emergency Service, Hospital*
Humans
Mental Disorders* / diagnosis
Prognosis