Psychiatric hospitals

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In January 1903 Einstein married Mileva Marie, (of Grcck-Catholic Serbian descent), a fellow student at the ETI I. In 1902 the couple had a daughter out of wedlock, Lieserl, whose fate remains unknown, and after marriage they had two sons, Hans Albert (1904), who became a distinguished professor of hydraulic engineering in Berkeley, California, and Eduard (1910), a gifted child who became a student of medicine in Zurich but who then turned severely schizophrenic and died in a psychiatric hospital. 

Reid WH, Mason M (1998). Psychiatric hospital utilization in patients treated with clozapine for up to 4.5 years in a State mental health care system. J Clin Psychiatry 189—94. 

The sources of direct costs include the costs of hospitalization in psychiatric hospitals or general medical wards, and the costs of medication and laboratory tests. Out-patient... 

Yago, K.B. Pitts, F.N., Jr. Burgoyne, R.W. Aniline, 0. Yago, L.S. and Pitts, A.F. The urban epidemic of phencyclidine (PCP) use Clinical and laboratory evidence from a public psychiatric hospital emergency service. J Cl in Psychiatry 42 193-196, 1981. 

The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer s disease, constituting 20% of psychiatric hospitalizations (Adams et al. 1997). In a European... 

Olson, however, reacted differently. He became depressed and paranoid. Over the weekend, he kept telling his wife he was incompetent. Gottlieb called Dr. Harold Abramson, who tried to help, providing medication and reassurance. When the depression did not lift, Abramson became concerned and arranged for hospitalization at Chestnut Lodge, a private psychiatric hospital. 

Fortunately, new treatments have greatly improved the plight of the patient with schizophrenia. Thanks in large part to the introduction of newer antipsychotic medications, few patients with this disease spend their lives in long-term psychiatric hospitals anymore. However, we have a long way to go. Individuals with schizophrenia are currently a sizeable proportion of both the homeless population and the prison population in the United States. Even with the great advances in schizophrenia treatment in the last 50 years, this illness still takes a tremendous toll on the lives of its sufferers and their families. 

Pfeffer, C.R., Jiang H., and Domeshek, L.J. (1997) Buspirone treatment of psychiatrically hospitalized prepubertal children with symptoms of anxiey and moderately severe aggression. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 7 145—155. 

If a youth is imminently dangerous, health professionals are obligated to protect the individual from acting. Either psychiatric hospitalization or one-to-one close supervision, while optimizing community support, is indicated. All dangerous items (e.g., weapons, medications, etc.) should be removed from the home or locked out of reach. Efforts should be made to decrease stimuli likely to agitate the youth. If a youth is homicidal, psychiatric hospitalization is usually the only course of action. The health professional team has... 

Buitelaar, J.K. (2000) Open-label treatment with risperidone of 26 psychiatrically hospitalized children and adolescents with mixed diagnoses and aggressive behavior. / Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 10 19-26. 

The illness variables that were predictive of poor outcome all reflected severity of illness. They included more severe panic and agoraphobic symptoms, psychiatric hospitalization, and longer duration of illness. The best prognostic indicators were the severity of the illness and its duration at the time of first assessment. Comorbid depression was also associated with poorer outcome. A number of environmental variables were also predictive of poor outcome separation from a parent by death or divorce, high interpersonal sensitivity, low social class, and unmarried marital status. 

McElroy SL, Keck PE Jr, Pope EIG Jr, et al Valproate in primary psychiatric disorders literature review and clinical experience in a private psychiatric hospital, in Use of Anticonvulsants in Psychiatry Recent Advances. Edited by McElroy SL, Pope HG Jr. Clifton, NJ, Oxford Health Care, 1988b McElroy SL, Keck PE Jr, Pope HG Jr, et al Valproate in the treatment of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. J Clin Psychopharmacol 8 275-279, 1988c McElroy SL, Sessain EC, Pope HG Jr, et al Clozapine in the treatment of psychotic mood disorders, schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia. J Clin Psychiatry 52 411-414, 1991a... 

On the other hand, nurses and doctors who lived through the period before 1953/54 and then saw the introduction of modern psychopharmaceuticals could hardly believe the unprecedented therapeutic advances that these medicines provided how much suffering, anxiety and waste of human life could be eliminated inside and outside of psychiatric hospitals. Relief and sometimes elation, together with new therapeutic optimism, can be sensed in the early publications on the discovery of antipsychotics and antidepressants (see Chapter 2). 

After 3,4 and 5 years the long-term effects of these treatments were examined. The criterion of success was taken to be the number of days spent by the patients in psychiatric hospitals since the firsi hospitalization and since their discharge from first hospitalization. 

Pope. H.G.. Keck. P.E.. McElroy, S.L. Frequency and presentation of neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a large psychiatric hospital. Am. J. Psychiatry 143, 1227-1233,1986. ... 

Complicated mania is an elaboration on the theme of the secondary type and is defined as the presence of antecedent or coexisting nonaffective psychiatric disorders and/or serious medical disorders ( 34). These patients can be grouped into psychiatric or medical cluster patients. The psychiatric cluster patients have had fewer prior psychiatric hospitalizations, an earlier onset of illness, and a history of prior suicide attempts. This contrasts with the medical cluster, which has a later age of onset, no prior history of suicide attempts, more organic features, and more deaths during the follow-up period. 

Miller F, Whitcup S. Benzodiazepine use in psychiatrically hospitalized elderly patients. J din Psychopharmacol 1986 6 384-385. 

DiClemente RJ, Ponton LE. HIV-related risk behaviors among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and school-based adolescents. South J Psychiatry 1993 150 324-325. 

Cournos F, Empfield M, Horwath E, et al. The management of HIV infection in state psychiatric hospitals. Hosp Community Psychiatry 1989 40 153-158. 

Drug takers using the service have typically been in their twenties and early thirties (with a mean age of 28). During the first twelve months of operation 57 per cent of clients had problems with opiates (mainly heroin) and 22 per cent with stimulants (mainly amphetamine sulphate). A large number (57 per cent) took their drugs by injection. Half of the team s contacts took place in clients homes, half in their own premises. Some in-patient contacts are made in the local psychiatric hospital, some in the regional detoxification unit at... 

FYRof Macedonia ARQ 2005 98.7% - - - 1.3% - - 902 Psychiatric Hospital "Skopje", in-patient and out-patient facilities, 5 new Services for prevention and treatment of drug use and neuro-psychiatrics departments in aeneral hosDitals... 

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