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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

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We are in the midst of a staggering mental health crisis. Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition. Leyenaar; Pediatric Mental Health Boarding. Zima; Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

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Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631. Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

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2007 Oct;14(5):265-8. West J Emerg Med. 2012 Feb;13(1):35-40. PMC3298214. Melamed E, Oron Y, Ben-Avraham R, Blumenfeld A, Lin G. The combative multitrauma patient: a protocol for prehospital management. Eur J Emerg Med. PMID: 17823561.